Viscount Weymouth’s hunt: Thomas, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, with a Black page and other huntsmen at the kill

Wootton, John (ca. 1682-1765)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1733

Height:

359.0 cm  (141 5/16 in.)

Width:

345.0 cm  (135 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Scene includes hunters, horses, dogs, the captured fox, one hunter on horseback playing a hunting horn, and a young Black page holding a hunting horn; at the center is the presentation of the fox to Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth.

People as subjects

Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount (1710-1751)

Iconclass

43C114
hunter
46C1314
horses and kindred animals
43C111231
fox-hunting
43C1112311
fox and hounds
48C75
making music; musician with instrument
43C11482
hunting horn
46A1251
page, footboy

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hunting horn [4138] (two)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6298