Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Title:
Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage
Date:
1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite with gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower right: "F. Wheatley, delt. 1798"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4360
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | cottage | cottage | fence | dresses | apron | stockings | bonnets (Scottish caps) | shoes (footwear) | baskets | storage baskets | boat | broom | oar | pot | barrel | straw | water | bricks | baby | children | shed | church | trees | hills | door | chimneys (architectural elements) | foliage | shingles | panes (architectural elements) | cloth | pottery | window | clouds | architectural subject | potter | cows | clothes | pigeons (general term) | donkey
Associated Places:
Ireland
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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:
Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1978, vol. 3, p. 904, NJ18 F2164 A3 1978 (YCBA)

Ron Radford, Island to empire : 300 years of British art, 1550-1850 : paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculptures from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005, p. 170, N3913.5 .R34 2005 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 25, pl. 25, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14184