Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Ross, active from 1753, British
Title:
Netting Partridges
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 9/16 × 11 13/16 inches (19.2 × 30 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribedd in graphite, verso, lower left: "D3314 | Thomas Roper Exh 1766 | Netting Partridges c.1750 | LGD"; inscribed in pen with brown ink, verso, upper right: "7"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1132
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sporting art | landscape | figures (representations) | hunt | hunting | horseback riding | woman | men | horseback riders | hunters | river | net | trees | stream | horses (animals) | hound (dog) | dog (animal) | partridges
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 18, 44, no. 38, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47377