The Match between Aaron and Driver at Maidenhead, Aug. 1754: Aaron winning the Second Heat
Date:
ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 x 48 inches (88.9 x 121.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed with text
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1993.30.27
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | portrait | whip | stockings | breeches | riding boots | saddle | bridle | jockeys | men | racing | equestrians | field
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Maidenhead | Berkshire | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
British sporting pictures, Country Life, vol. 65, April 20, 1929, p. 550, fig. 3, S3 C68A (LC) + oversize (YCBA)Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 19, 44, no. 37, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Mary Dougal, Racing pictures of the Mellon collection, British Racehorse, vol. 24, December 1972, p. 597, SF338 B75 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Walter Shaw Sparrow, A book of sporting painters, John Lane, London, UK & New York, NY, 1931, p. 54, ND1385. S62 + [BRBL]