- Title:
- Breakfast before the Hunt
- Date:
- between 1785 and 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black and gray ink with brown and blue wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 x 8 inches (12.7 x 20.3 cm), Mount: 7 3/4 x 10 13/16 inches (19.7 x 27.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, on mount, lower left: "No 11." ; Verso: in graphite, lower center: "D26692"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.1142
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- antlers | breakfast | chairs | dinner | dogs (animals) | doorway | drinking | eating | food | horse (animal) | hunt | hunters | interior | meal | men | room | saddle | sporting art | table | windows
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47028
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Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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]
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) [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, pp. 43, 44, no. 39, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, p. 97, no. 33, pl. 33, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]