Genre: animal art / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: sporting art / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Three Sheep at Rest

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil with varnish on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (7 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The James W. (B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935) and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection

2. Staghunt

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (47.6 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Retriever with Hare in Its Mouth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (14 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Stable Boy on a Pony

Creator:: Arthur James Stark, 1831–1902
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (14 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Two Pack Horses

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 5 15/16 inches (8.6 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Le Piaffe (2): Training a Bridled and Saddled Horse at the Pillar

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 11/16 × 19 13/16 inches (24.6 × 50.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. A Hound Facing Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 5/8 inches (7.9 × 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Two Studies of Tumbler, a Dog

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (8.3 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Horse and Rider seen from the Rear

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 10 inches (27 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Man in an enclosed Carriage being pulled by a Horse with a Rider

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (14.6 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Mr. Hawks thinks he had Better Turn Back

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 7in. (10.8 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Profile of a Horse Facing Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 inches (14.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Horse Walking to Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (19.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Studies of Stags' Heads

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 6 3/8 inches (8.9 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Earl of Lonsdale's Hound Van arriving at a Meet of the Cottesmore Hunt, March 22, 1809

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 12 5/8in. (18.1 x 32.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Man and a Boy Riding on a Beach

Creator:: Philip William May, 1864–1903
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (14.6 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Two Studies of a Tiger; above: Head and Shoulders; below: Hindquarters

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 9/16 × 8 5/16 inches (24.3 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Too Late for the Meet, c. 1860: a Lady on horseback greeting a Man who is alighting from a gig

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches (16.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Close of the Season

Creator:: John Leech, 1817–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 3/4in. (16.2 x 24.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Saddled Horse Facing Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (16.2 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Horse Lying Down

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 inches (10.5 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Hunting Doctor

Creator:: Attributed to John Leech, 1817–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 10 × 16 5/8 inches (25.4 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Ages of the Horse: The Foal, The Colt, The Racer, The Hunter, The Post-Horse, Food for the Hounds

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on six sheets of paper mounted on blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 13/16 x 3 7/8 inches (7.1 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. "The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

"The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 inches (15.6 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Head of a Tiger

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and red chalk on medium, smooth, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (18.7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Mare: Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches (24.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Mare, Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Charcoal on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/4 × 15 5/16 inches (28.6 × 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Horse's Foreleg: Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 6 13/16 inches (14.6 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Portraits of a Gray Horse and a Black and White Spaniel, the Property of the Right Honorable C. Arbuthnot, Esq., M.P.

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 5/8 inches (27.9 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Groom with a Rearing Horse

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 7/16 inches (27.1 × 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Le Piaffer, Dressage Position

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 11 13/16 inches (23.3 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Le Piaffe (I): Training at the Pillar, Horse Wearing Bridle and Surcingle...

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/8 inches (26.4 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Hunting: The Meet

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (21.3 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Studies of Figures on Horseback

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (21.6 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Jockey on a horse with three figures

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/8 inches (13 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Thirteen Drawings of Horses, Horsemen, Hounds, etc.

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Thirteen graphite drawings bound into an album on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (19.1 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Horse and Rider being Attacked by a Lion

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (11.4 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Three Figures beside a Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Hunters approaching a lion being held at bay by hounds

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough laid paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 16 3/8 inches (24.4 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Hound Trial with hounds named

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 9 inches (11 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Study of a Cow

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1755 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (14.3 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Meet

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, graphite and charcoal on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 5/16 inches (13.3 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Volume of Sketches

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brooke Allen and Peter Aaron

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1. Three Sheep at Rest

2. Staghunt

3. Retriever with Hare in Its Mouth

4. Stable Boy on a Pony

5. Two Pack Horses

6. Le Piaffe (2): Training a Bridled and Saddled Horse at the Pillar

7. A Hound Facing Left

8. Two Studies of Tumbler, a Dog

9. Horse and Rider seen from the Rear

10. A Man in an enclosed Carriage being pulled by a Horse with a Rider

11. Mr. Hawks thinks he had Better Turn Back

12. Profile of a Horse Facing Left

13. Horse Walking to Left

14. Studies of Stags' Heads

15. The Earl of Lonsdale's Hound Van arriving at a Meet of the Cottesmore Hunt, March 22, 1809

16. A Man and a Boy Riding on a Beach

17. Two Studies of a Tiger; above: Head and Shoulders; below: Hindquarters

18. Too Late for the Meet, c. 1860: a Lady on horseback greeting a Man who is alighting from a gig

19. The Close of the Season

20. Saddled Horse Facing Left

21. A Horse Lying Down

22. The Hunting Doctor

23. Ages of the Horse: The Foal, The Colt, The Racer, The Hunter, The Post-Horse, Food for the Hounds

24. "The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

25. Head of a Tiger

26. A Mare: Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

27. A Mare, Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

28. Horse's Foreleg: Possibly a Study for "L'Amour de Cheval", Dated 1827, in the Tate Gallery

29. Portraits of a Gray Horse and a Black and White Spaniel, the Property of the Right Honorable C. Arbuthnot, Esq., M.P.

30. Groom with a Rearing Horse

31. Le Piaffer, Dressage Position

32. Le Piaffe (I): Training at the Pillar, Horse Wearing Bridle and Surcingle...

33. Hunting: The Meet

34. Studies of Figures on Horseback

35. Jockey on a horse with three figures

36. Thirteen Drawings of Horses, Horsemen, Hounds, etc.

37. Horse and Rider being Attacked by a Lion

38. Three Figures beside a Horse

39. Hunters approaching a lion being held at bay by hounds

40. Hound Trial with hounds named

41. Study of a Cow

42. The Meet

43. Volume of Sketches