Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.As the dawn rises with a rosy glow on an autumn day and the dew sparkles on the grass, two gentlemen accompanied by their pointers prepare for the hunt. The present work is the first of a series of four “shooting pictures” depicting the progression of a day’s field sport. Exhibited successively from 1767 to 1770 at London’s Society of Artists (with titles as here by Stubbs), the paintings were so popular that they were engraved as a set. The steep limestone cliffs are Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire on the estate of Stubbs’s patron, the third Duke of Portland.
Artwork Details
- Title: Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot
- Artist: George Stubbs (British, Liverpool 1724–1806 London)
- Date: ca. 1767
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings