Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Title:
A Party Angling
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.22
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rowboat | rod | riverbank | women | fish | caraco | ruffle | sporting art | fishing | breeches | water | servant | men | chemise | top hat | conversation piece | river | party
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art : From the " Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, , vol. 3, part 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, pp. 148, 150, 269, fig. 141, N8217.B535 I42 2010+ (YCBA) Citations are to Vol. 3, Part 3

Christie's sale catalogue : A valuable and choice collection of pictures, consisting of the works of the most celebrated and esteemed antient and modern masters : 5 February 1791, Christie's, February 5, 1791, p. 4, lot 48, Art Sales Catalogues Online

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 39, no. 6, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 32, no. 251, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 44, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Painting in England : 1700-1850, Arts Review, vol. 37, April 1963, p. 20, V 2337 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 144 (v.1), no. 274, pl. 135, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 66, 139, no. 170, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Walter Shaw Sparrow, Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries : Prints, Pictures, Books, , John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1923, pp. 177-8, N8250 S6 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by George Morland : held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, , Wyman & Sons, London, 1904, p. 13, no. 87, NJ18 M83 A12 1904 (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 54, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

George Charles Williamson, George Morland, 1907, pp. 111, 163, 168, Online resource available in Google Books
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38766