Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Title:
The Mistletoe Bough
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (57.5 × 47 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.117
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
mop caps | roast beef | meal | dinner | kissing | costume | caps | chair | candlestick | table | cottage | basket | genre subject | dance | women | men | winter | morality | girls | elderly | lovers | peasants | food | alcohol | fireplace | feast | courtship | party | Christmas | celebration
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 246-247, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, p. 30, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 72, ND466 .G67 (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. 141 (v.1), no. 268, 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, p. 71 (v.1), no. 255, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

W. Roberts, F. Wheatley, R.A., His life and works , Otto limited, London, 1910, p. 20, pl. 111, NJ18 W56 +R63 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:454