- Title:
The Prize Fight
- Date:
- 1787
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/8 x 27 3/8 inches (46 x 69.5 cm), Frame: 29 3/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches (75.6 x 92.1 x 2.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
J. Whatman - Fig. 197 in shorter "James Whatman II 1764 - 93, page 337.
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "T. Rowlandson 1787"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.30.113
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boxes (containers) | canes | carriages | collar | crowd | dogs (animals) | fighting | horses (animals) | men | platform | poles | prize | ring | sporting art | trees | wagons | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4105
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British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 279-80, fig. 6, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : A collection of water colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, the property of a gentleman. . . : 12 February 1912, Christie's, February 12, 1912, p. 4, lot 112, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 39, no. 320, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, pp. 40, 100, no. 37, pl. 37, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Hoozee, British vision : observation and imagination in British art, 1750-1950, , Mercatorfonds Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels , Ghent, 2007, pp. 118, 119, no. 51, fig. 51, N6767 B78 2007 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp.34,125,130-31, no. 45, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 64, 132, no. 155, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 11-12, no. 14, pl. XI, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS) [ORBIS]
The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 279-80, fig. 6, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
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