LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on millboard

Measurements:

26.69 in. (67.80 cm.) (height) by 38.46 in. (97.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Geo: Stubbs pinxit/1785' ( l.r. )

Exhibited:

The earliest of Stubbs's harvesting paintings are Haymakers and Reapers, each dated 1783 (in oil on panel, 91.5 x 137.2 cm.), now in the Berstead Collection, Upton House (The National Trust), which were then developed into the Haymakers and Reapers, each dated 1785 and on panel, 89.5 x 132.5 and 90 x 137 cm. respectively, now in Tate Britain. These were at the Royal Academy in 1786 and engraved by the artist in 1791

Literature:

Possibly Index of Paintings sold in the British Isles, during the Nineteenth Century (IPSBI), subtitled The Provenance Index of the Getty Art History Information Program, Santa Barbara, California, as vols. I-IV, 1988-99 ,J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 2007, pp. 478-9, cat. no. 252, ill

Provenance:

Possibly Stubbs's studio sale, 26 May 1807, lot 76, as Landscape, a View from Nature during the Corn Harvest; Men loading a Cart with Corn, and Women and Children gleaning, (sold for £43. 1s),Revd R.L. Barker, Charlbury, 1886,The Collection of Major Roller Tadley,By whom sold, Christie's, London, 10 December 1910, lot 88 (as The Harvest-Wagon, sold for 6? gns to Renton),Col. G.M.Barnett, Glympton Park, 1939,With Leggatt Brothers, from whom purchased by a private collector,Sale, Christie's, London, 22 March 1974, lot 36 (bt Roy Miles),Private Collection, UK,With Anthony Mould, London, 2006, from whom purchased by the present private collectorLiterature,Possibly Index of Paintings sold in the British Isles, during the Nineteenth Century (IPSBI), subtitled The Index of the Getty Art History Information Program, Santa Barbara, California, as vols. I-IV, 1988-99 ,J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 2007, pp. 478-9, cat. no. 252, ill