- Title:
- The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate
- Former Title(s):
View of the Round Course at Newmarket, with Racehorses Going to Start for the King's Plate [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
Horse-racing at Newmarket; a Scene at the Start- Date:
- ca. 1725
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm), Frame: 38 × 52 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (96.5 × 134 × 5.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower left, "P. Tillemans . F"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.629
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.629FR
- Subject Terms:
- carriage | children | equestrians | flags | jockeys | men | race (event) | racing | spectators | track | women
- Associated Places:
- Cambridgeshire | England | Europe | Newmarket | Suffolk | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1092
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Summer Exhibition (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 1988-07-14 - 1988-10-15) [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]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 222-223, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative painting in England 1537-1837, 1,2, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, Gloucestershire, 1970, pp. 286, ND2728 C7 LC (Oversize) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 17, 44, no. 45, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 31-32, no. 33, pl. 6b, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
English Animal and Sporting Pictures in the Mellon Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns#14, April 1963, p. 283, fig. 2, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File: V1168 [YCBA]
Roger Longrigg, The history of horse racing : Foreword by Paul Mellon, The Macmillan Company, London, 1972, pp. 53, SF335 A1 L65 1972 LC+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 157 (v.1), no. 299, pl. 186, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 5 (v.1), 65 (v. 2), no. 14, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Red letter days : British sporting art of the 18th and 19th centuries : Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Center Gallery, November 10, 1990-February 11, 1991.", , Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., 1990, pp. 14, 17, 30, no. 13, N8250 R44 1990 [ORBIS]
The Noble Horse : From Pegasus to Thoroughbred, , Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd., 2000, pp. 86, 131, English Catalogue p.17, no. 72, pl. 72, N7668 .H6 N6 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 8, N8250 W35 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 50 (v.1), no. 189, pl. 65, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]