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A Horse Affrighted by a Lion
George Stubbs (English, 1724-1806)
September 25, 1777
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.1 × 45.9 cm (13 7/16 × 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 47.7 cm (14 3/8 × 18 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
George Stubbs specialized in painting horses, and he frequently invested his compositions with Romantic flair by including ravenous predators and dark and stormy vistas. As seen here, his prints offered appropriately stark contrasts for these imaginative subjects while maintaining a sense of the dramatic; yet his practice of animal portraiture was in fact based on close anatomical study. His oversize 1766 book Anatomy of the Horse included a series of crosssection prints of horses in various poses, showing every layer from a horse’s silky hide to its skeleton.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
