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- Title:
John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds
- Former Title(s):
John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston, Members of the Shrewsbury Hunt [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
- Date:
- 1779
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 inches (95.9 x 146.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "TS | 1779"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.552
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.552FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | buttons (fasteners) | conversation piece | dogs (animals) | grass | greyhounds (breed) | group portrait | harnesses | hats | hills | horses (animals) | hounds (dogs) | hunters | huntsmen | landscape | men | portrait | reins | riding (horseback riding) | riding boots | riding breeches | saddles | sky | sporting art | tailcoats | trees
- Associated People:
- Leighton, Robert
Corbet, John
Kynaston, John (1728–1783), author and literary scholar - 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:64
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