Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
unknown artist, nineteenth century
Title:
The Wolverhampton Racecourse
Date:
1837
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 x 33 inches (58.4 x 83.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
signed and dated 1837
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
No Copyright - Contractual Restrictions
Accession Number:
B1981.25.748
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | gamblers | dogs (animals) | racecourse | church | city | steeple | urban | women | soldiers | audiences | men | walking | gambling | buying | selling | spectators | constables | buyers | recreation | genre subject | landscape | advertising | neckties | parasols | dresses | uniforms | breeches (trousers) | hats | grandstands | tent | top hats | bonnets (hats) | fichus | tailcoats | table (support furniture) | cityscape | carriages | basket | fair | meeting
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Europe | Wolverhampton | Staffordshire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Antiques & Fine Art Fair 2002 (BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, 2002-03-13 - 2002-03-19)

The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22)

Paintings on Loan to The Trustees' Room Belmont Park from the English Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Belmont Park, 1968 - 1968)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 40-41, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 323, no. 354, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

The Noble Horse : From Pegasus to Thoroughbred, , Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd., 2000, pp. 62, 124; English Catalogue p. 10, no. 43, pl. 43, N7668 .H6 N6 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1200