Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31 × 46 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, bottom center "D Cox [...]" and bottom right "D26261"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1467
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Metropole London 1800 - 1840 (Kulturstiftung Ruhr, 1992-06-04 - 1992-11-08)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 30, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 277-278, no. 78, pl. 78, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 206, no. 434, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 78, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Nick Powell, Coleridge's London, The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 19, Spring, 2002, p. 9, no. 15, Not Available at YaleScott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 41, pl. 41, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 30, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Burney made several large drawings of this sort, satirizing the manners and pastimes of contem-porary society. Here the subject is an evening meeting of a glee club; the numerous inscriptions scattered throughout the drawing are all titles of popular madrigals and "catches," or rounds. \n\n Gallery label for Pleasures and Pastime (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)