Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Title:
The Medway at Rochester
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 3/4 x 31 inches (55.2 x 78.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.170
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | genre subject | costume | ruins | path | rowboat | bridge (built work) | houses | castle | fortress | shore (landform) | river | wall | men | women | washerwomen | rope | fishermen | laundry
Associated Places:
Kent | Rochester | Medway | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
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. 75, pl. 25, 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. 244-245, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 216, N1 C75 + 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, p. 51 (v.1), no. 29, pl. 203, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

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, pp. 14 (v.1), 64 (v. 2), no. 46, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 59 (v.1), no. 219, pl. 64, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:379