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Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664), Heron Hawking below Stirling Castle, ca. 1690
- Title:
Heron Hawking below Stirling Castle
- Former Title(s):
Hawking Scene
- Date:
- ca. 1690
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 24 1/2 × 24 1/8 inches (62.2 × 61.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
SIgned, lower left: "JWyck [monogram]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.726
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.726FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | birds | bow (weapon) | castle | clouds | coat | death | dogs (animals) | hawks | hills | horses (animals) | hounds (dogs) | hunters | hunting | island | lake | men | mountains | party | ribbon | riding boots | riding habit | river | running | sky | sporting art | sportsmen | sword | town | trees | view | woman
- Associated Places:
- Forth | Scotland | Stirling | Stirling Castle | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1183
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Jan Wyck, a Dutch painter working in England, was famous for his battle and hunting scenes. In Wyck’s time, heron hawking was already an ancient aristocratic ritual, verging on the symbolic: a noble and brave bird of prey was set upon the heron, a waterfowl traditionally associated with cowardliness. Here, in the foreground, a huntsman carries a hawk on his arm toward the hunting party, which includes a gentleman and lady on horseback, and their hounds, which gaze anxiously up at the sky where the battle is waged. The heron, flying upwards, is about to be met by the descent of the soaring hawk. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Penn's England (Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1982-09-05 - ) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 266-267, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 5, no. 5, pl. 3, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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