The Young Bull by Paulus Potter
Category
Photographs
Date
1851 - 1870
Materials
Paper
Measurements
164 x 246 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520700.24
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting in landscape format. The painting is in a rectangular frame and mounted on a paper page within an album. The painting is called The Young Bull and is by Paulus Potter and features a young bull centre, with an older cow lying down in front of a tree on the left next to a group of sheep. An older male looks on from behind the tree. Written and stencilled on the print at the bottom is "Galloway PAUL POTTER The Hague".
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986