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Description: | Cockfighting is a blood sport which is hundreds of years old, and is traditionally enjoyed by men from many different social backgrounds. It was banned in England and Wales in 1835 for being cruel. Cockfighting still takes place in some parts of the world. Two or more specially bred birds, known as gamecocks, are placed in a fenced space to fight each other, and this usually results in the death of one or both of the birds. This series of four oil paintings shows the stages of a Cockfight. Here, the artist paints in the style of Henry Alken where the violent, or 'sporty' scenes, are depicted in a decorative style rather than realistically. Attitudes towards animal cruelty and blood sports were very different in the past. Henry Alken became quite a celebrity in his day painting sporting scenes such as horseracing and fox hunting.
Oil painting showing two cocks with their necks out-strecthed, facing each other before they fight. The ground is yellow and brown and the background is green. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Cockfighting Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Cock fighting Birds Performing animals Victorian period Georgian period Art collections | Temporal: | 1790 - 1850
Georgian (1714-1837)
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | ALKEN; Henry Thomas (1785 - 1851) (attributed to) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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