Genre: sporting art / Associated Places: United Kingdom / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: horses (animals) / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Over the Bank, Exmoor

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 7/16 inches (25.1 × 34.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Morning at Tattersalls (with further sketches in left margin folded over)

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and colored washes on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 inches (34 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Stag at Bay - Scene near Taplow, Berks.

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1795 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red, black, gray and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 x 20 5/8 inches (41.4 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 22 11/16 inches (23.3 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 1/2 inches (23.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 22 1/8 inches (22.9 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Newmarket - Pulling Up

Creator:: Lionel Edwards, 1878–1966
Date:: 1933
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 15/16 inches (25.6 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Quorn towards Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire

Creator:: Lionel Edwards, 1878–1966
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, gouache and black chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 7/8 × 25 7/16 inches (50.5 × 64.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: The Cream of the Thing

Creator:: Edward Hull, 1810–1877
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gum arabic, and gouache on 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

12. 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

13. The St. Leger, Doncaster: The Finish

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 7/8 inches (31.1 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A Race on the Knavesmire at York

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and gray ink on thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 14 inches (21.6 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The St. Leger, Doncaster: Preparing to Start

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 5/16 inches (27.3 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Meet of the Quorn at Garrendon Park, Loughborough, Leicestershire

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted on wood
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 3/4 inches (27.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 7/16 inches (23.5 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Saddling Enclosure, Epsom

Creator:: James Barenger, 1780–after 1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 11/16 inches (25.7 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Match at Newmarket

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 9/16 × 7 3/8 inches (9 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Race Meeting at Newmarket Heath

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: ca. 1671
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 16 1/2 inches (24.1 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and pen and red-brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches (11 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. The Night Riders of Nacton: Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured brown laid paper mounted to thick, card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (23.5 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to thick card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Foxhunting in England

Creator:: Lionel Edwards, 1878–1966
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gouache, and gum arabic on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/16 × 10 inches (12.9 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Over the Bank, Exmoor

2. A Morning at Tattersalls (with further sketches in left margin folded over)

3. Stag at Bay - Scene near Taplow, Berks.

4. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

5. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

6. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

7. Newmarket - Pulling Up

8. The Quorn towards Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire

9. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

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

11. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: The Cream of the Thing

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

13. The St. Leger, Doncaster: The Finish

14. A Race on the Knavesmire at York

15. The St. Leger, Doncaster: Preparing to Start

16. A Meet of the Quorn at Garrendon Park, Loughborough, Leicestershire

17. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

18. The Saddling Enclosure, Epsom

19. A Match at Newmarket

20. A Race Meeting at Newmarket Heath

21. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

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

23. The Night Riders of Nacton: Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

24. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

25. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

26. Foxhunting in England