Human Figure, Posterior View (Finished Study for an Unpublished Plate)
Date:
1795 to 1806
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and red chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with traces of well-defined platemarks along margins
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 3/8 x 16 inches (54.3 x 40.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: "3"; in graphite, verso, upper left, encircled: "3"; in graphite, verso, upper right: "597.57 59<...>.57"; in graphite, verso, upper right, from top to bottom of sheet: "3"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1980.1.33
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
anatomical study | back | anatomy | man | figure study
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Fearful of Symmetry: The Art of George Stubbs, painter of the Enlightenment (Hall & Knight Ltd., 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-28)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, pp. 98-9, no. 78, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)Terence Doherty, Anatomical Works of George Stubbs, David R. Godine, Boston, 1974, p. 114, no. 33, pl. 154, NJ18.St915 D64 1975 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 187, 192, no. 144, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +Nicholas H. J. Hall, Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment, , Hall & Knight Ltd., New York, 2000, pp. 170-71, pl. 41, NJ18 St915 F4 2000 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 82-5, no. 65, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)