id:			150175
accession number:	1980.90
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.90
updated:		2025-06-04 11:05:57.845000

A Sleeping Leopard, 1791. George Stubbs (British, 1724–1806). Soft-ground etching with roulette work; image and plate: 18 x 23.7 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.); sheet: 18.4 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1980.90

title:				A Sleeping Leopard
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1791
creation date earliest:		1791
creation date latest:		1791
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	Soft-ground etching with roulette work
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Mezzotint
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Taylor 18; Lennox-Boyd, Dixon, & Clayton 91

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CREATORS

* George Stubbs (British, 1724–1806)  - artist

* George Stubbs (British, 1724–1806)  - publisher

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measurements: Image and Plate: 18 x 23.7 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 18.4 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
state of the work:	II/II
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Printed, lower center: Painted, Engraved & Published by Geo. Stubbs, 1 Jan 1791, No. 24 Somerset Str. Portman Square, London.
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

	title:		Two Hundred Years of British Prints
	opening date:   1984-10-09T04:00:00
	<i>Two Hundred Years of British Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 1984-February 3, 1985).

	title:		The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art
	opening date:   1990-05-01T04:00:00
	<i>The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).

	title:		Imagination in the Age of Reason
	opening date:   2024-09-28T04:00:00
	<i>Imagination in the Age of Reason</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?–1980
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	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 9, 1980–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 192; Mentioned: p. 217, no. 240
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730

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