A Tyger (A Recumbent Leopard by a Tree)

May 1, 1788

Not on view

Stubbs actually titled this print "A Tyger," the inclusive late-eighteenth century term for tigers, cheetahs, and leopards. After studying the animal in an English menagerie, he placed it in an expansive, light-saturated landscape. The artist etched the plate himself, using roulette work to evoke the distant haze and to draw evocative visual connections between the spotted patterns of fur, bark, rocks, and speckled overhanging leaves.

Artwork Details

Title: A Tyger (A Recumbent Leopard by a Tree)
Artist: George Stubbs (British, Liverpool 1724–1806 London)
Published in: London
Date: May 1, 1788
Medium: Etching with roulette work; first and only state
Dimensions: 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33.0 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.49.7
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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