Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Title:
The Duke of Rutland's Bonny Black
Date:
ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 × 48 1/2 inches (76.2 × 123.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.695
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sky | animal art | horses (animals) | leading | breeches | building | horse racetracks | hills | jockeys | bricks | racing | riding | hats | stockings | riding boots | shoes | tricornes | coat
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Newmarket | Suffolk
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)

Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 56, 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. 258-259, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 19, 44, no. 46, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Stephen Deuchar, Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, fig. 52 and deta, N8250 D48 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 11-12, no. 12, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 112, no. 41, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

Walter Shaw Sparrow, British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring, Scribner, London New York, 1922, pp. 12, ND1385 S6 (YCBA) +
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5041