Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, Sketch of an Elaborately Saddled Horse, ca. 1792
- Title:
Sketch of an Elaborately Saddled Horse
- Date:
- ca. 1792
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 3/8 inches (24.1 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink upper left: "No. 15"; in pen and black ink, center left: "1 yellow spots upon a Red ground | 2 yellow ornamental flowers on [...] | 3 Red Fringe | 4 Red [...] | 6 Gold upon a Red Ribbond | 7 Square [...] Beads | A Yellow Lapels"; upper right: "straps of the Bridle Gold | Bits Steel"; center right: "(9) Red Tufts | (10) Yellow [...]"; lower left: "11 Red [...] | 12 Gold upon Blue Ground"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22382
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | horse (animal) | saddle
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17745
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Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 24, no. 15, V2359 (YCBA)
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