
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- George Stubbs 1724–1806
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 84 × 107 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the British Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03781
Display caption
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
T03781 A FOXHOUND VIEWED FROM BEHIND published 1788
Engraving, mixed method, 3 5/16 × 4 3/16 (84 × 107) on hand-made wove paper 7 1/8 × 10 1/4 (180 × 260); plate-mark 4 1/8 × 4 15/16 (106 × 127)
Writing-engraving below image ‘Publish'd by Geo Stubbs 1 May 1788’; on the back, stamped twice by the British Museum (i) on accession, with no. 1872-10-12-3698; (ii) on transfer, like T03778
Transferred by the Trustees of the British Museum 1983
Prov: ...; purchased by the British Museum from Mr Daniell (see T03778) 1872; transferred to the Tate as a duplicate 1983
Lit: Basil Taylor, The Prints of George Stubbs, 1969, no.11, repr. p.41 from another impression; Richard Godfrey, ‘George Stubbs as a Printmaker’, Print Collector's Newsletter, XIII, no.4, 1982, p.115
See note to T03780 above
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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