Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British

after Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)

Print made by Robert Sayer, 1725–1794, British
Title:
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match at Lucknow
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 x 28 7/8 inches (53.3 x 73.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink, on back, lower left: "25/58"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.36.1301
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
fighting | roosters | cock-fighting | gamecocks | entertainment | tennis | women | men | canopy | sitars | hookah | spear | tent | chairs | sofas | costume | turbans | sandals | historical subject | sporting art
Associated Places:
India | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow | Asia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 153-4, 497, fig. 94, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)

Charles Greig, Zoffany in Eighteenth Century India, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 16, 2011, pp. 36, 37, NJ18 R65 T7 2011 (YCBA)

Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 9, V 1199 (YCBA)

Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, p. 274, cat. no. . 88, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA)

John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotint portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century . Arranged according to the engravers ; the inscriptions given at full length ; and the variations of state precisely set forth ; a , H. Sotheran & Co., London, 1884, v.1, pp. 253-54, cat.no. 29, NE265 .S65 1884 (YCBA) Another copy available in Prints and Drawings

John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v. 1, pp. 253-5, Earlom no. 29, NE1816.G7 S58 2004

Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)

Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, pp. 505, 506, 509, 651, fig. 378, NJ18 Z68 W43 2011 + (YCBA)

J. E. (Joseph Edward) Wessely, Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner radirungen und schabkunstbla¨tter , Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, Hamburg, 1886, p. 48, no.. 120, J18 Ea76 886w (SML) [Yale Classification System]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21286