Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Turner, 1774–1857, British
Title:
An Extensive View of the Oxford Races
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/8 x 36 1/4 inches (63.8 x 92.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.631
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
stalls | stand (mercantile structure) | track | marquee | food | spectators | children | men | jockeys | soldiers | women | servants | betting | grandstand | tent | scaffold | view | horses (animals) | drinking | race (event)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Europe | Oxfordshire | Oxford
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 34, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 224-225, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

The Noble Horse : From Pegasus to Thoroughbred, , Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd., 2000, pp.3, 124; Engkish Catalogue p. 10, no. 46, pl. 46, N7668 .H6 N6 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1094