ID: 700008627 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008627	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Couple of Foxhounds, A (painting (visual work); George Stubbs (1724-1806); 1792; Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom); T01705)

Note: "A Couple of Foxhounds" was probably commissioned by the Reverend Thomas Vyner of north Lincolnshire. Stubbs was known to have worked for the Vyner family on his return to Lincolnshire in 1776 and again in 1792. Vyner was an avid sportsman and equestrian, and an expert on breeding hounds. He was a close friend of Charles Anderson-Pelham, later 1st Baron Yarborough, and the two often hunted together at Brocklesby, the Pelham estate. The actual type of hound portrayed is uncertain. Though normally referred to as foxhounds, as in the other examples by this artist, they may be hare-hounds or harriers.

Titles:

Couple of Foxhounds, A (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1792

Creator Display:

George Stubbs (1724-1806) [preferred,VP]

patron Vyner, Thomas, Reverend (British cleric, patron, active 18th century) [500356950]

painter Stubbs, George (English painter, 1724-1806) [500032263]

Locations:

Current: Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500301641] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T01705

Credit Line: Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1973

Display Materials: oil paint on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: support: 1016 x 1270 mm; frame: 1180 x 1440 x 115 mm

General Subject:

animals (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	foxhounds (breed) [300404734]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus), Canis familiaris (species)) (AAT)

	hunting [300239666]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <physical activities by location>, <forest and nature activities>) (AAT)

	landscape (representation) [300015636]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	harriers (breed) [300404735]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus), Canis familiaris (species)) (AAT)

Provenance: Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd (Grant-in-Aid) with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery and a special government grant 1973. Coll: ...; ?taken to Australia by a member of the Vyner family; by descent; sold to an Australian dealer, by whom sold T00972 to a London dealer, by whom sold 1972 to Spink’s. Exh: English Painting, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Spink & Son Ltd, November–December 1972 (18, repr. in colour, as ‘A couple of foxhounds’); Fanfare for Europe: The British Art Market 1973, Christie’s, January 1973 (30). Lit: Basil Taylor, ‘A Stubbs Discovery’ in Octagon, IX, No.4, Winter 1972, p.5, repr. in colour; The Friends of the Tate Gallery Annual Report 1972–1973, 1973, p.11, repr. The early history of this picture has not been traced nor has it been possible to trace its original owner or the names of the dogs. There was a picture in the sale of Stubbs’ effects in 1807 (Peter Coxe at 24 Somerset Street, 26–27 May 1807, 1st day, lot 59) described as ‘Portrait of Two Hounds belonging to the late Duke of Richmond, in a small landscape, painted from Nature, at his Grace’s seat at Goodwood, in 1791’, but it is probable though not altogether certain that the reference to a ‘small landscape’ means that the picture itself was small.

Inscriptions: ‘Geo:Stubbs pinx it 1792’ b.r.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Couple of Foxhounds, A	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)