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The Farmer's Wife and the Raven
George Stubbs1786
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT, United States
This scene from John Gay’s popular book Fables (1727) is one of Stubbs’s rare excursions into literary subject matter. A farmer’s wife rides to market preoccupied with the thought of the profit that her eggs will bring. The croak of a raven perched on a branch makes her start from her “silver dream”; the horse falters beneath her, and the eggs are broken.
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022
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- Title: The Farmer's Wife and the Raven
- Creator: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
- Creator Lifespan: 1724/1806
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: male
- Date Created: 1786
- Physical Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
- Subject Keywords: horse (animal), raven, literary theme, landscape, literature, costume, basket, genre subject, eggs, frightened, gesture, wife, woman, farmer, willow, broken, bird
- External Link: See this work of art on the Yale Center for British Art website
- Medium: beeswax and oil on millboard
- Repository Name: Yale Center for British Art
- Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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