Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Farington, 1747–1821, British
Title:
Westminster Abbey and Bridge
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 3/8 x 28 inches (92.4 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.28
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
cityscape | rowboats | sailboats | boats | people | river | buildings | abbey | churches | bridge (built work)
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Europe | Westminster Abbey | Westminster bridge | Thames | London | City of Westminster | Westminster | Greater London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)

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)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 21, V 0909 (YCBA)

Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, p. 95, pl. 35, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 92-93, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 95, 189, no. VI.4, pl. 75, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout no. 30, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:267