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- Title:
Lion and Snake
- Date:
- 1799
- Medium:
- Mezzotint, etching, and roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 1/4 × 24 inches (48.9 × 61 cm), Image: 19 × 23 5/8 inches (48.3 × 60 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered lower center: "LION & SNAKE"; lower left: "J.Northcote RA Pinx."; lower center: "London Published Sept. [...] 1799 by James [...]"; lower right: "S.W.Reynolds fculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1985.36.749
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | fighting | lion | snake
- 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:44819
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Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 33, 47, no. 72, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mark (Andrew Mark), Ledbury, James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 103, 104, fig. 96, NJ18.N79 L43 2014 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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]