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- Title:
Bulls Fighting
- Former Title(s):
Fighting Bulls [1787, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- beeswax and oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 24 1/4 x 32 1/2 inches (61.6 x 82.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "geo : stubbs pinxit | 1786"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.93
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.93FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | bulls (animals) | clouds | fighting | horns | lake | landscape | sky | trees
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:432
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Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 218-219, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 61, no. 38, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, p. 154, N8250 D48 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 94-95, no. 92, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 171, no. 128, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
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Fighting Bulls, Connoisseur, vol. 158, February 1965, p. 128, N1 C75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Fighting Bulls, Burlington Magazine, vol. 106,no. 740, November 1964, p. xiv, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 62, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nicholas H. J. Hall, Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment, , Hall & Knight Ltd., New York, 2000, pp. 146-9, pl. 33, NJ18 St915 F4 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Lucinda Hawksley, Fifty British Artists You Should Know, Prestel, Munich : New York, NY, 2011, p. 28, N6796 .H39 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Lawrence, A philosophical and practical treatise on horses and on the moral duties of man towards the brute creation., Symonds, London, UK, 1802, pp. 428-9 (v.2), Szlb 435 (LSF - MUDD) [ORBIS]
Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, pp. 150-2, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868, official catalogue , Edward Baines and Sons, Leeds, 1868, Fiche B1244 Fiche.N.4.2.368 (SML) [ORBIS]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Important Old Master Paintings : 2 December 1964, Sotheby's, London, December 2, 1964, p. 10, lot 16.94, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
Walter Shaw Sparrow, A book of sporting painters, John Lane, London, UK & New York, NY, 1931, p. 86, 88, ND1385. S62 + [BRBL] [ORBIS]
Walter Shaw Sparrow, George Stubbs and Ben Marshall, v. 2, Cassell Scribner, London New York, 1929, pp. 28, 30, NJ18 St915 S73 1929 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Stubbs, an exhibition in honor of Paul Mellon : National Gallery of Art, 4 May-2 June 1985. , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, p. 8, no. 26, V 0413 (YCBA) [YCBA]