Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865, British
Title:
The Royal Mail Coach on the Road
Date:
1841
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
18 x 13 13/16 inches (45.7 x 35.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "J.F. Herring. 1841."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.210
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
horse (animal) | Victorian | whip | carriage | genre subject | Postal service--buildings | road | costume | vehicle | rural | workers
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 304-305, no. 329, pl. 106, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Exhibition of coaching paintings by James Pollard, kindly lent by N. C. Selway, Esq. , Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., Hyde Park, May 1963, NJ18 P7425 +S44 1963 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, At home to sporting art : the Brick House, Essays of Friends of British Sporting Art, no. 33, The British Sporting Art Trust, Summer 1997, p. 6, N8250 .B751 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : The Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Dick collection of English sporting and conversation paintings part three : 23 April 1975, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, April 23, 1975, p. 58, lot 111, Fiche B18 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41936