Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British

Title:

Pheasant Shooting

Date:

ca. 1825

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

8 3/4 x 11 inches (22.2 x 27.9 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed in black paint, lower left: "H Aiken"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B2001.2.87

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

sporting art | dogs (animals) | hunter | pheasants

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)

Publications:

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 369, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 252, no. 273, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 58, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40729