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Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Title:

Hunting Scene: The Kill

Former Title(s):

The Belvoir Hunt: The Death [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]

Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 24 1/4 inches (45.7 x 61.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed, lower left: "H. Alken"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.256
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | cottage | dogs (animals) | horse (animal) | hunters | hunters | hunting | sporting art
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41206
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The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., Annual exhibition of sporting paintings : an exhibition of fine XVIIIth and XIXth century sporting paintings : 18th November -16th December 1964, Illustrated catalogues price five shillings in aid of the injured national hunt jockey's fund , London, 1964, lot 5, DealerCat Arthur Ackermann [ORBIS]

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 369, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 253, no. 275, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 67, fig. d, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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