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- Title:
The Farmer's Wife and the Raven
- Former Title(s):
The Farmer's Wife and the Raven, from John Gay's "Fables"
The farmer's wife and raven (Gay's Fables); enamel [1782, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- beeswax and oil on millboard
- Dimensions:
- 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower center: "geo stubbs | 1786"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.94
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.94FR
- Subject Terms:
- basket | bird | broken | Common Raven | costume | dream | eggs | farmer | Fifty-one Fables in Verse or Fables of John Gay (1727, Part the Second 1738) | frightened | genre subject | gesture | horse (animal) | landscape | literary theme | literature | raven | wife | willow | woman
- 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:433
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George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Robin Blake, George Stubbs and the wide creation, animals, people and places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806 , Chatto & Windus, London : Chatto & Windus, 2005, 2005, pp. 236, 254-56, pl. 32, NJ18.St915 B53 2005 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures & Drawings and Engravings of the Early English School of Sir Walter Gilbey : 12 March, 14 March and 15 March 1910, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 12, 14 and 15, 1910, p. 26, Lot 146, Fiche B51, Fiche# 1408 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the collection of sporting pictures : 11 June 1915, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 11, 1915, Lot 401, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : The Tresham Gilbey collection of sporting pictures and books and pictures from other sources : 30 May 1947, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 30, 1947, p. 11, Lot 83, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue: Catalogue of the First Portion of the Important Collection of Sporting Pictures : 20 July 1951, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 20, 1951, Lot 131, Fiche B51, Fiche# 3229 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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. 49, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 95-96, no. 93, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 172, no. 129, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Fine paintings, Philip Mould. , Philip Mould Ltd., London, 2007, p. 56, no. 23, DealerCat Philip Mould 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Walter Gilbey, Life of George Stubbs, R.A., Vinton, London, 1898, p. 159, NJ18 St915 G55 (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 62, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 216, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Loan collection of pictures by George Stubbs, A.R.A., and engravings from his works , J & W Vokins, London, 1885, p. 20, no. 7, NJ18 St915 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, p. 127, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, list of sports and pastimes : the first 600 selected pictures : there are 3,000 and more paintings, coloured prints, etc., which will be exhibited from time to time. , National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, London, 1950, pp. 27-28, no. 112, N8250 L65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 170 (v. 1), no. 323, pl. 185, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 74-5, no. 266, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 47 (v.1), no. 178, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]