- Title:
- The Tea Party
- Former Title(s):
- The Excrable Concert
- Additional Title(s):
- Verso: The Execrable Concert
- Date:
- ca. 1770
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 7/8 × 13 inches (45.4 × 33 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: " Mar. Laroon F."
Inscribed on verso in artist's hand in pen and brown ink, lower center: "The Execrale Concert"
Watermark: Fleur-de-Lis/ LVG (Similar to Heawood 1835)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6213
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- food | genre subject | men | party | table | tea | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6112
- Export:
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James Miller, The Music party, paintings, drawings & prints by Marcellus Laroon, 1679-1772, with related works by Marcellus Laroon the Elder, c. 1650-1702 : catalogue of the exhibition at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 11th June - 1st September 2011 and at The Handel House Museum .. , London, 2011, p. 26, no. 14, V 1777 (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, v. 1: p. 203, no. 397, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Spirit & Force of Art: Drawing in Britain, 1600-1750, Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, p. 196, fig. 84.1, DealerCat Lowell Libson Ltd. (YCBA) [YCBA]