Description

In the eighteenth century, with much of the world still uncharted and uninhabited, ‘the Wild’ was a bigger and more frightening place than it is today. Its inhabitants, both animal and human, were at once intriguing and alarming.
Stubbs’s Wild has two faces: one, that of a harsh, hostile land of sublime and uncontrollable power; the other, an abundant treasury of wondrous and useful things.
These two sides of the Wild reflect two identities within Stubbs the artist: the creative storyteller and the ever-curious scientist, the history painter and the natural historian.