Genre: sporting art / Subject Terms: horses (animals) and hounds (dogs)

1. 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

2. Hare Hunting

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 56 x 48 inches (142.2 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Heron Hawking below Stirling Castle

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 24 1/8 inches (62.2 × 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Hound Exercise

Creator:: Peter Biegel, 1913–1988
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Portrait of a Sporting Lady

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/4 x 50 1/2 inches (103.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift
On View:: Not on view

6. 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

7. 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

8. Bachelor's Hall: Full Cry

Creator:: Francis Calcraft Turner, active 1782–1846
Date:: 1835 to 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 19 inches (35.6 x 48.3 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. Bachelor's Hall: Breaking Cover

Creator:: Francis Calcraft Turner, active 1782–1846
Date:: 1835 to 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 19 inches (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Bachelor's Hall: The Death

Creator:: Francis Calcraft Turner, active 1782–1846
Date:: 1835 to 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 19 inches (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. George, Marquess of Huntly (later fifth Duke of Gordon), on Tiny

Creator:: Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835
Date:: between 1806 and 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 3/16 inches (18.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Hunting Sketch: Gone to Earth

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, moderately textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (21.9 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Check

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (23.5 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Death

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 × 11 3/4 inches (24 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Full Cry

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 × 11 3/4 inches (23.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 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

25. 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

26. The Sporting Parson: "The Sporting Parson at the Meet(ing) of His 'Dear Brethren' "

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 inches (27.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Sporting Parson: "A Find- and Our Parson Just Follows a Little, to See How His Dear Brethren Behave Themselves"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor, and white gouavhe on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray-brown, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 3/4 inches (27.1 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Sporting Parson: "He Sheweth Them the Way They Should Go"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 1/16 inches (27.3 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Meet

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (13.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Two Riders and a Couple of Hounds Clearing a Wall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 3/16 inches (23.2 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Return From the Chase, After a Fall

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 13/16 inches (30.5 × 40.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Foxhunting: The Death

Creator:: Edwin W. Cooper of Beccles, 1785–1833
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 1/8 inches (32.1 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (16.7 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Foxhunting: Full Cry

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: between 1827 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 10 3/16 inches (16.7 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 inches (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 3/16 inches (15.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Going out of Kennel

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (23.5 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. A Meet: a Lady Rider Converses with a Gentleman Standing by His Horse...

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 13/16 inches (19.4 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Drawing Covert

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Full Cry

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 7/16 inches (23.5 × 34.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Gone Away

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 13 3/16 inches (23.3 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Foxhunting: Rider and a Couple of Hounds Entering a Covert

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (25.1 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Whipper-in With a Hound, the Field Ahead at Left

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 16 1/16 inches (25.7 × 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Foxhunting: The Meet, With Hounds Coming Out of Kennel

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 17 7/16 inches (27.3 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Stag Hunting - Full Cry: the Stag Hounds Tear Down a Slop at Right...

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 13/16 inches (27 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Stag Hunting - The Hind at Bay: In a Mill-Stream Below a Water-Mill, Right...

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 inches (26.7 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Foxhunting: Going to Draw Cover...

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 10 7/8 inches (22.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Death of the Hare

2. Hare Hunting

3. Heron Hawking below Stirling Castle

4. Hound Exercise

5. Portrait of a Sporting Lady

6. Preparing for the Hunt

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

8. Bachelor's Hall: Full Cry

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

10. Bachelor's Hall: Breaking Cover

11. Bachelor's Hall: The Death

12. George, Marquess of Huntly (later fifth Duke of Gordon), on Tiny

13. Over the Bank, Exmoor

14. Landscape with Sportsman and Guns

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

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

17. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

18. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

19. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

20. Hunting Sketch: Gone to Earth

21. The Check

22. The Death

23. Full Cry

24. Coursing: Setting Out

25. A Boar Hunt

26. The Sporting Parson: "The Sporting Parson at the Meet(ing) of His 'Dear Brethren' "

27. The Sporting Parson: "A Find- and Our Parson Just Follows a Little, to See How His Dear Brethren Behave Themselves"

28. The Sporting Parson: "He Sheweth Them the Way They Should Go"

29. The Meet

30. Two Riders and a Couple of Hounds Clearing a Wall

31. Return From the Chase, After a Fall

32. Foxhunting: The Death

33. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

34. Foxhunting: Full Cry

35. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

36. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

37. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

38. Going out of Kennel

39. Riders and Hounds in an Open Landscape

40. A Meet: a Lady Rider Converses with a Gentleman Standing by His Horse...

41. Drawing Covert

42. The Death

43. Full Cry

44. Gone Away

45. Foxhunting: Rider and a Couple of Hounds Entering a Covert

46. Whipper-in With a Hound, the Field Ahead at Left

47. Foxhunting: The Meet, With Hounds Coming Out of Kennel

48. Stag Hunting - Full Cry: the Stag Hounds Tear Down a Slop at Right...

49. Stag Hunting - The Hind at Bay: In a Mill-Stream Below a Water-Mill, Right...

50. Foxhunting: Going to Draw Cover...