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Creator:
John William North, 1842–1924
Title:
A Young Lover
Date:
1867
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on very thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 7 inches (16.8 x 17.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Prance carefully"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "N-2 | A Young Lover | 6 7/8 x 6 1/2 in"

Signed in pen and brown ink lower left: "JN 67"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.16.1
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
beret | boy | dress (costume) | garden | gate | genre subject | girl | hunter | lovers | shotgun | steps | trees
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11359
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This small early watercolor was painted in the same years that North provided illustrations to Wayside Posies and Jean Ingelow’s Poems. It shares with the illustrations to those volumes a quirky compositional sense and a strangely elliptical form of storytelling. What exactly is the relationship between the woman on the steps and the young man with the gun?

Scott Wilcox, Victorian Idyll, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, V 2811

Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Scott Wilcox, Victorian Idyll, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, p. 15, V 2811 [ORBIS]


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