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Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882, British, The Sporting Parson: "D-n -- I Mean Conf-d That is 'Bless the Pigs! They're Mad - The Devil's in 'em' ", undated
- Title:
The Sporting Parson: "D-n -- I Mean Conf-d That is 'Bless the Pigs! They're Mad - The Devil's in 'em' "
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 7/8 inches (27.1 × 37.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black chalk, lower left: "8"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "(D--) C.-) Bless the PIgs they're Mad -- the Devils in em."; inscribed in black chalk, verso, upper left: "8 | Bless the the Pigs!! They're mad the Devil's in em."
Signed in black chalk, lower right: "PHIZ."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.687
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | cows | farm | fields | horseback riders | horseback riding | horses (animals) | house | hunt | hunters | hunting | jumping | landscape | men | parson | pigs | sporting art | trees | whip
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47119
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Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 372, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
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