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- Title:
Memnon, with William Scott Up
- Former Title(s):
Memnon with William Scott Up on Doncaster Racecourse [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
Memnon with W. Scott up, on Doncaster Racecourse
- Date:
- 1825
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26 9/16 x 33 1/4 inches (67.5 x 84.5 cm), Frame: 33 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (85.1 × 102.9 × 6.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in red paint, lower left center: "MEMNON"
Signed and dated in red paint, lower right: "J. F. Herring. 1825"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.753
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.753FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | breeches | clouds | crowds | equestrian | fence | field | hat | horses (animals) | jockey | man | pattern | racecourse | riding boots | riding habit | spectators | sporting art | top hat | woman
- Associated People:
- Scott, William (1797–1848), jockey
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1205
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 114-115, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 293-94, no. 316, pl. 38, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., Partridge sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine English sporting pictures : 1959, 1959, p. 7, DealerCat Frank Partridge Inc (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 79 (v.1), no. 277, pl. 28, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 29 (v.1), no. 104, pl. 28, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]