- Title:
- The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt
- Date:
- ca. 1760
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 74.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.620
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.620FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | banquet hall | bridle | building | costume | countess | dog (animal) | field | forest | gold braid | grasses | hat | hill | horse (animal) | horseback riding | hunting | manor | park (grounds) | portrait | riding (traveling) | riding boots | riding habits | rural | sky | sporting art | whip | woman
- Associated Places:
- Carne's Seat | England | Europe | Goodwood Park | United Kingdom | West Sussex | Westhampnett
- Associated People:
- Newton, Margaret, 2nd Countess Coningsby (1709–1761), wife of Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet (died 1743)
- Access:
- Not on view
- Exhibition History:
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George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
The Chronicle of the Horse in Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2016-08-26 - 2017-04-26)
Sidesaddle,1690-1935 (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2018-09-07 - 2019-03-24)
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Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 65-66, no. 66, pl. 24, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter, catalogue raisonne , Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., London, 2007, p. 138, NJ18 St915 A12 E44 2007 + (YCBA)
Claudia P. Pfeiffer, Chronicle of the Horse in art, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia, 2016, pp.2, 3, 50-51.110 [fn 55], pl. 18, N7668.H6 P44 2016 (YCBA)
John Wilmerding, In honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, Essays , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 28, fig. 3, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1084
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George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British, The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt, ca. 1760
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