John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk
Date:
1765
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 × 54 inches (90.2 × 137.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in green paint, lower right: "J. Dunthorne | 1765"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
house | men | sporting art | hunting guns | farmhouse | fox hunting | dogs (animals) | fox (animal) | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Suffolk | Hadleigh | Europe | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sojourn at Home: Sporting Paintings from the Paul Mellon Bequest at the Yale Center for British Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2002-10-04 - 2003-03-28)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 43, no. 31, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 51, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)