- Title:
- Frost on the Thames
- Former Title(s):
The Thames Frozen Over [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
The Thames Frozen Over, near the Tower of London
Frost on the Thames, sketched on the spot [1789, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]- Date:
- 1788 to 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm), Frame: 36 1/2 × 54 1/2 inches (92.7 × 138.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: “Case 57”; upper left: “Painting in England, 1700-1850 | The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond 20 | Artist: Samuel Collings | Title: ‘The Thames Frozen Over’ |Cat. No. 278 | Medium: Oil on Canvas <Loan No.> | Insure for: Sales Price: | Lender: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon | Address: Upperville, Virginia”; center left: “N.B. This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture | Royal Academy of Arts | Winter Exhibition, 1950-51 | Name of Artist S. Collings. Ser. No. 190 | Title of Work The Thames Frozen over in 1789 | (R.A. 1789) | Name and Address of Owner Miss Joan D. Parkes, | Preyste House, North St. Petworth, Ssx. | (Please correct any particulars not properly given)”; lower left, handwritten: “Samuel Collings. Frost on the | Thames, Exhibited 1789 at R. A. | together with self protrait left to | C.H. Parker (see letter Andrew Jackson | 1864) A & M. Collings (see [...]ills Somerset Ho. Collings probably | descended from [...] with | Byerleys. See pedigree on sheet 19th century | note paper. Thomas [...]; lower center: “[handwritten, underlined] The Thames Frozen Over Below London Bridge, | Showing Tower of London & St Paul’s Cathedral. | (The artist is seen on extreme right.) | Oil painting by Samuel Collings. (Working 1780- | 1790.) | Collections: - | [not underlined] Misses Anne & Mary Collings | 1864. | Charles H. Parker | & by descent to the [...] owner | Exhibited | Royal Academy 1789 | & Royal Academy | 1950/1 No. 190 | [typed] P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. | Established 1760) | Experts, Valuers and Dealers | in | Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings | By The | Old and Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telephone: | Hyde Park 1943-44.”; lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 4086 | A/N No. 2791”; lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 4080 | A/N No. 2791”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.99
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.99FR
- Subject Terms:
- advertising | boats | booths, exhibition | braziers (heating equipment) | cathedral | children | church | cityscape | costume | donkey | fair | fire | flags | frost | genre subject | hotel | ice | market (event) | masts | masts | men | monument | people | river | selling | shovel | signs | snow | staff (walking stick) | stands | tower (building division) | walking | winter | women
- Associated Places:
- England | London | St. Paul's Cathedral | Thames | Tower of London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:322
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : English pictures and drawings, 1700-1950 : 11 March 1960, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 11, 1960, p. 22, Lot 107, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 54-55, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition Catalogue. 1789. 21st, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 21, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1789, p. 14, no. 409, N5054 A53 v. 1:2 nos 14-28 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil S. Long, Pictures: Samuel Collins, Connoisseur, Vol. LXXXV, January 1930, p. 30, N1 +C75 85 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 146 (v.1), no. 278, pl. 29, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 71 (v.1), no. 257, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, p. 35, no. 53, N5054 .A545 1951/52 (YCBA) Also available Fiche B185 at the YCBA Reference Library and Photo Archive [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 21 (v.1), no. 20, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]