The Wimpole Heifer, 'Honeycomb'
Eliot Thomas Yorke (1805 - 1885)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1860 - 1869
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
601 x 800 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207916
Summary
Oil painting on canvas. The Wimpole Heifer, 'Honeycomb' by The Hon Eliot Thomas Yorke (1805-1885). Unframed. Inscribed on reverse - 'The Portrait of a Heifer, Bred at Wimpole, Shewn at Smithfield 186-. Painted by Hon Eliot T Yorke. "Highly Commended" - Not ye Picture, Nor ye Painter, But The Beast. EY'.
Provenance
Bought at Cheffins auction, Cambridge, 28.4.2005
Marks and inscriptions
'The Portrait of a Heifer, Bred at Wimpole, Shewn at Smithfield 186-. Painted by Hon Eliot T Yorke. "Highly Commended" - Not ye Picture, Nor ye Painter, But The Beast. EY'
Makers and roles
Eliot Thomas Yorke (1805 - 1885), artist