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Fowl Body, Lateral View (Highly Finished Study for an Unpublished Table; Shows the Last Stage in Dissection)
Fowl, Lateral View, Deeply Dissected
A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
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New Haven
Fierce Friends - Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era, 1750-1920 (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2006-03-25 - 2006-08-27)
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300054766
exhibition
Fierce Friends - Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era, 1750-1920
Yale Center for British Art
Carnegie Museum of Art
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
300054766
exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
Fearful of Symmetry: The Art of George Stubbs, painter of the Enlightenment (Hall & Knight Ltd., 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-28)
69
300054766
exhibition
Fearful of Symmetry: The Art of George Stubbs, painter of the Enlightenment
Yale Center for British Art
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George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)
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https://britishart.yale.edu/node/705
300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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New Haven
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Paul Mellon collected George Stubbs with a passion and an instinctual feel for his qualities. The very first painting Mellon ever purchased was Stubbs’s Pumpkin with a Stable-Lad (1774). He also collected Stubbs comprehensively, even systematically, acquiring drawings, prints, enamels, and Stubbs’s only publication, The Anatomy of the Horse. There is a range and a depth to this collection that no other public or private collection can rival. — —
The Center published a handsome, fully-illustrated book to accompany this exhibition. Designed by Greer Allen and Julie Lavorgna, it has an introductory essay by Malcolm Cormack, Paul Mellon Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and contributions by the curatorial staff of the Center. The book formed part of the Center’s tribute to its munificent founder and brought together for the first time the most remarkable and comprehensive collection of George Stubbs ever created. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: April 30–September 1, 1999 — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: February 14–May 15, 2000
Yale Center for British Art
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)
354
300054766
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George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery
Yale Center for British Art
Tate Britain
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George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
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300054766
exhibition
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery
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Yale Center for British Art
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1977
0
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Yale Center for British Art
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New Haven
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New Haven
19824
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Malcolm Cormack, ^George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 104, no. 88, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
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Terence Doherty, ^Anatomical Works of George Stubbs^, David R. Godine, Boston, 1974, p. 120, no. 113, pl. 236, NJ18.St915 D64 1975 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Terence Doherty
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David R. Godine
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Judy Egerton, ^George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. ^, Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 211, 214, no. 164, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +
Yale Center for British Art
Judy Egerton
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^George Stubbs : rediscovered anatomical drawings from the Free Public Library, Worcester, Massachusetts^, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1958, p. 27, no. 27, pl. III, NJ18 .St915 A77 (YCBA)
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Nicholas H. J. Hall, ^Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment, ^, Hall & Knight Ltd., New York, 2000, pp. 174-5, no. 43, NJ18 St915 F4 2000 (YCBA)
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Louise Lippincott, ^Fierce friends, artists and animals, 750-1900 ^, London ; New York : Merrell ; Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 64-5, N7660 .L53 2005 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 83-5, no. 68, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Gillian Forrester, British
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Morna O'Neill
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Kim Sloan
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Yale Center for British Art
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Although George Stubbs is celebrated primarily as a painter of animals, particularly horses, he was also an accomplished anatomist; indeed his exhaustive anatomical studies played a crucial role in the creation of his paintings. Stubbs's interest in anatomy was by no means innovative - the concept of the "artists-anatomist" was well established in the Renaissance period, with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci as its prime exponents - but he showed extraordinary dedication to the subject, and his work was highly praised by his scientific contemporaries.
According to his earliest biographer Ozias Humphry, Stubbs demonstrated a precocious interest in anatomy, beginning his studies at the age of eight with the help of a Dr. Holt, who supplied him with bones to draw. After Stubbs moved to York to work as a portrait painter in 1745, he spent much of his time dissecting corpses at the hospital under the guidance of the surgeon Charles Atkinson, and he provided illustrations for John Burton's pioneering study of obstetrics, Essay Towards a Complete new System of Midwifery (1751). In 1756 Stubbs embarked on a study of equine anatomy, spending sixteen months in a remote farmhouse in Lincolnshire dissecting and drawing the flayed carcasses of horses with the assistance of his common-law wife Mary Spencer. Stubbs intended to have his drawings engraved and published, but his attempts to fins a professional engraver were unsuccessful. When The Anatomy of the Horse was eventually published in 1766, it was acclaimed by members of the scientific community, including Petrus Camper, the celebrated Dutch anatomist. Camper suggested that Stubbs might pursue his studies in equine anatomy further, but Stubbs replied, "What you have seen is all I meant to do, it being as much as I thought necessary for the study of Painting…I looked very little into the internal parts of a Horse, my search there being only a matter of curiosity."
Stubbs's interest in anatomy was clearly more than merely utilitarian, however, as his highly sophisticated studies indicate, and in 1796, at the age of seventy-one, the artist embarked on his most ambitious anatomical investigation, a comparative anatomy of the human being, the tiger, and the common fowl. This choice of subject may sound eccentric today, but it reflected contemporary scientific theories regarding the shared structure of all living creatures, and Stubbs may have been encouraged by the celebrated anatomists William and John Hunter, who had both commissioned him to produce paintings of exotic animals. Stubbs intended to publish the Comparative Anatomical Exposition as sixty engraved plates with explanatory letter press in English and French editions, but only half of the plates had been published by the time of his death in 1806, although he had completed the preliminary drawings and had written four volumes of accompanying text. The project clearly had great personal significance for Stubbs: Mary Spencer recollected that on his death-bed, he lamented that "I had indeed hoped to have finished my Comparative Anatomy eer I went, for other things I have no anxiety."
The studies and four manuscript volumes had a complex history prior to their acquisition by the Center. They were not included in Stubbs's posthumous studio sale but remained with Mary Spencer until her death in 1817, when they were sold. The drawings were mounted on paperboard either by Edward Orme, who published an edition of the completed plates in 1817, or by a subsequent owner, Thomas Bell; they were eventually acquired by John Green of Worcester, Massachusetts, who gave them in 1863 to the Worcester Public Library, where they languished forgotten until they were discovered in the course of a cataloguing project in 1957. In 1980 Paul Mellon purchased the drawings with the manuscript volumes for the Center, where they were restored to their earlier condition through an extensive program of conservation work.
--- --- Gillian Forrester --- ---
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Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 104, no. 88, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)
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Yale Center for British Art