Engraved by unknown artistafter John Collet, ca. 1725–1780, British
Title:
The Ladies' Shooting Poney
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored mezzotint on wove paper
Dimensions:
Plate: 14 x 10in. (35.6 x 25.4cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved, in plate: "The Ladies Shooting Poney. From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the Possession of Carington Bowles/ Printed for & Sold by CARINGTON BOWLES, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. LONDON. Published as the Act directs 25 Mar. 1780." Engraved, LL, in plate: "415."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.36.320
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Three Centuries of Comic Art-Eighteenth Century Satire: John Collet (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998-06-06 - 1998-08-23)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. 45-6, no. 53, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)