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Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764
Title:
A Grey Spotted Hound
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed, lower right: "J. Wootton [pinx?]"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.701
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.701FR
Subject Terms:
animal art | bird | dead | dog (animal) | Quails | sporting art | water | woods
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1159
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Wootton was the leading sporting artist of the first half of the eighteenth century. Here a noble hound stands guard over the dead bird he has retrieved for an unseen master. The dog is probably an early pointer, a breed introduced in England in the mid-seventeenth century. It grew in popularity in the early 1700s when shooting birds in flight became more common. Pointers then as now were skilled in finding, flushing, and retrieving birds.

Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [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]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 258-259, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 44, no. 47, 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. 26-27, no. 28, pl. 9, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 159 (v.1), no. 303 (v.1) no. 214 (v.2), pl. 214, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 7, N8250 W35 (YCBA) + [YCBA]


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