Print made by Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774, British, The Death of the Fox, 1794
- Title:
- The Death of the Fox
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 x 15 9/16 inches (27.9 x 39.6 cm), Plate: 9 13/16 x 13 11/16 inches (25 x 34.8 cm), Image: 9 5/16 x 13 11/16 inches (23.6 x 34.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "Not lot | lot 81 | Sold (?Soth) Jan 24, 98 | Cat in Y[...]"; lower center: "#9"
Lettered, lower left under image: "Seymour Pinx.t"; lower center under image: "~~~ The Death of the FOX. ~~~ ~~~ La Mort du Renard. ~~~ | Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London."; lower right under image: "T. Burford Fecit. 6"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.842
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- costume | death | dogs (animals) | equestrians | forest | fox (animal) | fox hunting | hankerchief | horn | horses (animals) | hunters | hunting | landscape | pond | resting | sporting art | top hats | whips
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22533
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 44, no. 40, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
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