Period: 18th century / Genre: sporting art / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: horses (animals)

1. Preparing for the Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Lamprey, with His Owner Sir William Morgan, at Newmarket

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 49 1/2 inches (104.1 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 49 inches (67.6 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 1/4 inches (102.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Shooting Party

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (15.9 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

Creator:: Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 inches (95.9 x 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Major John Dade of Tannington, Suffolk

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 1/2 inches (76.2 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Lough Erne from Knock Ninney, with Bellisle in the distance, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Scipio, a spotted hunter, the property of Colonel Roche

Creator:: Thomas Spencer, 1700–1753
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 52 3/4 inches (99.1 x 134 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Chaise Match Run on Newmarket Heath on Wednesday the 29th of August, 1750

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 × 66 inches (106.7 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

Creator:: James Dunthorne, 1730–1815
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 54 inches (90.2 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Duke of Hamilton's Grey Racehorse 'Victorious' at Newmarket

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 113 1/4 x 127 1/8 inches (287.7 x 322.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1760 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 99 inches (152.4 x 251.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Hunting Scenes: five oval plaques in one frame, perhaps Staffordshire or Liverpool and possibly enamel transfer-printed in black

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel transfer-printed in black on ceramic
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Studies of Horses

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (15.9 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

16. To His Grace The Duke Of Newcastle, This Print Of The Return From Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving with aquatint and drypoint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 x 26 1/4in. (53.3 x 66.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Landscape with Sportsman and Guns

Creator:: John Henry Müntz, 1727–1798
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 11 15/16 inches (22.4 × 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Gentleman on a Managed Horse Riding Out With a Lady

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (14.3 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Lady and a Gentleman Riding Out

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pen and black ink, and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (14.3 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Coursing: Setting Out

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen, in black ink, gray ink, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 3/16 inches (17.5 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. An English Postilion

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 3/8 × 9 3/16 inches (16.2 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Netting Partridges

Creator:: Thomas Ross, active from 1753
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 11 13/16 inches (19.2 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Racing Scene

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 × 15 15/16 inches (29.4 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: Taking the Gate at the Hinge Post While Snob Walks Thro'

Creator:: Edward Hull, 1810–1877
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gum arabic, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 3/8 inches (26 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Colonel Thornton Driving Tandem on His Sporting Tour of Scotland

Creator:: George Garrard, 1760–1826
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 9/16 inches (32.7 × 47.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Stag Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (19.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Scholar Placed in His Seat Without Styrrops

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 14 1/2 inches (25.9 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Two Horses Racing, Jockeys Up: Railings in the Background

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 13/16 inches (20.3 × 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. "Fearnought Going to Run Against The D: of Devon: Smart"

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 7/8 inches (21 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Riders and Hounds in an Open Landscape

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 13/16 × 16 5/8 inches (27.5 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Boar Hunt

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 × 10 7/8 inches (23.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Six Studies of Horses and Riders

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite 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

33. Morning

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 5 7/8 inches (10.2 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Evening

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 5 13/16 inches (10.2 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Mid-Day

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/16 × 5 7/8 inches (10.3 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Death of the Fox

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 15 9/16 inches (27.9 x 39.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Making a Cast at a Fault

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.3 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. 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

39. A Rider in Armor, and Two Horses Lying Down

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 4 5/8 inches (15.2 × 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Dosing a Racehorse

Creator:: Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734–1760
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, graphite, gray wash and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 1/8 × 12 15/16 inches (30.8 × 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Preparing for a Hunt at Selhurst Park, Nov. 14, 1796

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 13/16 inches (19.8 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Return from the Hunt

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/16 x 11 7/8 inches (20.5 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Foxhunting: The Kill

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/16 inches (24.1 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Setting Off for the Chase: The Huntsman Leading out a Pack of Harriers followed by the Master and the Whipper-In

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on stretched canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 20 inches (30.8 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. 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

47. A Hawking Party

Creator:: Print made by William Wynne Ryland, 1732–1783
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 22 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 1 inches (56.5 × 69.2 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan Boyd-Bowman, Yale BA 1971

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1. Preparing for the Hunt

2. Lamprey, with His Owner Sir William Morgan, at Newmarket

3. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

4. The Death of the Hare

5. The Shooting Party

6. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

7. Major John Dade of Tannington, Suffolk

8. Lough Erne from Knock Ninney, with Bellisle in the distance, County Fermanagh, Ireland

9. Scipio, a spotted hunter, the property of Colonel Roche

10. The Chaise Match Run on Newmarket Heath on Wednesday the 29th of August, 1750

11. John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

12. The Duke of Hamilton's Grey Racehorse 'Victorious' at Newmarket

13. The Death of the Hare

14. Hunting Scenes: five oval plaques in one frame, perhaps Staffordshire or Liverpool and possibly enamel transfer-printed in black

15. Studies of Horses

16. To His Grace The Duke Of Newcastle, This Print Of The Return From Shooting

17. Landscape with Sportsman and Guns

18. A Gentleman on a Managed Horse Riding Out With a Lady

19. A Lady and a Gentleman Riding Out

20. Coursing: Setting Out

21. An English Postilion

22. Netting Partridges

23. Racing Scene

24. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: Taking the Gate at the Hinge Post While Snob Walks Thro'

25. Colonel Thornton Driving Tandem on His Sporting Tour of Scotland

26. A Stag Hunt

27. The Scholar Placed in His Seat Without Styrrops

28. Two Horses Racing, Jockeys Up: Railings in the Background

29. "Fearnought Going to Run Against The D: of Devon: Smart"

30. Riders and Hounds in an Open Landscape

31. A Boar Hunt

32. Six Studies of Horses and Riders

33. Morning

34. Evening

35. Mid-Day

36. The Death of the Fox

37. Making a Cast at a Fault

38. Horse Walking to Left

39. A Rider in Armor, and Two Horses Lying Down

40. Dosing a Racehorse

41. Preparing for a Hunt at Selhurst Park, Nov. 14, 1796

42. The Return from the Hunt

43. Foxhunting: The Kill

44. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

45. Setting Off for the Chase: The Huntsman Leading out a Pack of Harriers followed by the Master and the Whipper-In

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

47. A Hawking Party