Study of a fox
Watercolour
1824 (painted)
1824 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
When Lewis was a young man, fox hunting in Britain was the rural sport that had the most popular following. Lewis’s early reputation was founded on the sporting pictures that he successfully exhibited and sold. These included Buck Shooting in Windsor Great Park (Tate, no.4822; exhibited Royal Academy 1826; British Institution 1827) and portraits of individual sportsmen and their dogs. This watercolour may be a work in its own right or it may be a study for an unknown composition. Lewis exhibited two watercolours that included foxes at the Society of Painters in Water Colours: ‘Wild Ducks surprised by a Fox’ (1829) and ‘Fox and Duck’ (1831) (location of both unknown), but he is not known to have depicted the foxhunt itself.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Study of a fox (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour study of a fox by John Frederick Lewis. Great Britain, 1824. |
| Physical description | Rapid watercolour sketch of a fox's head |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs R Ellison |
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| Summary | When Lewis was a young man, fox hunting in Britain was the rural sport that had the most popular following. Lewis’s early reputation was founded on the sporting pictures that he successfully exhibited and sold. These included Buck Shooting in Windsor Great Park (Tate, no.4822; exhibited Royal Academy 1826; British Institution 1827) and portraits of individual sportsmen and their dogs. This watercolour may be a work in its own right or it may be a study for an unknown composition. Lewis exhibited two watercolours that included foxes at the Society of Painters in Water Colours: ‘Wild Ducks surprised by a Fox’ (1829) and ‘Fox and Duck’ (1831) (location of both unknown), but he is not known to have depicted the foxhunt itself. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.531 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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