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- Title:
The Chillington Oxen
- Additional Title(s):
The Chillington Oxen, to T. W. Giffard, Esq.
- Date:
- 1838
- Medium:
- Line engraving and mezzotint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches (46.4 x 54.6 cm), Image: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in graphite lower right: "C"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered lower left: "Painted by Lucas Beattie."; lower right: "Engraved by John Porter, 9 Mary Street, Regents Park."; lower center: "THE CHILLINGTON OXEN, | To T.W. Giffard, Esqre., this Engraving from the Original Picture | Is most respectfully dedicated by his Obedient Servant Lucas Beattie. | Published Decr. 1, 1838, By Lucas Beattie, Wolverhampton."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1985.36.268
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- agronomy | animal art | ewe (animal) | farming | husbandry | obesity | science
- 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:44353
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Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephanie Triplett, Bovine reproductions : animal husbandry and acclimatization in the cattle paintings and prints of Rosa Bonheur, Art History, vol. 46, February 2023, p. 17, fig. 3, N1 .A75 (YCBA) [YCBA]