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- Title:
- Thomas King in "The Clandestine Marriage" by George Colman and David Garrick
- Former Title(s):
- Thomas King as Lord Ogleby
- Date:
- ca. 1792
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 10 3/4 inches (35.6 x 27.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.238
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.238FR
- Subject Terms:
- actor | boxes (containers) | bridge (built work) | costume | hat | pink (color) | portrait | theater
- Associated People:
- King, Thomas (1730–1805), actor and theatre manager
Colman, George, the elder (bap. 1732, d. 1794), playwright and theatre manager - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:746
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A catalogue of the curious and inestimable collection of original drawings which have been distinguished Bell's various edtions of the British classics : and others of his miscellaneous publications, forming together a complete school of arts : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Wednesday, March the 27th, 1793, and following day at twelve o'clock : to be viewed two days previous to the sale : catalogue, Christie's, March 27, 1793, N8640.N6+V.6no.6 Also available at Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
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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. 57 (v.1), no. 208, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
George Charles Williamson, English conversation pictures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, B.T. Batsford, London, 1931, p. 14, pl. 36, ND1304 E5 1931 + (YCBA) [YCBA]