Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "IR 516"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.17
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dogs (animals) | snakes | violinist | architectural subject | plaza | street | costume | violin | carts | carriages | statue | cityscape | sculpture | genre subject | cathedral | building | figures | music | walking | chaos | satire | satirical | humor | musician | monk | French | Grand Tour | celebration | victory
Associated Places:
Notre-Dame | Place des Victoires | Europe | France | Île-de-France | Paris
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 5, 29, no. 118, color plate 6, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 28, 30, 35, fig. 31, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Richard T. Godfrey, English caricature, 1620 to the present : caricaturists and satirists, their art, their purpose and influence, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1984, p. 75, no. 83, NC1477 .G63 E54Algernon Graves, The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791, and The Free Society of Artists, 1761-1783 : a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Societies to 1791, Kingsmead Reprints, Bath, 1969, p. 219, no. 223, N5053 G73 1969 (YCBA)Patrick Noon, A Princely Amateur : Paul Mellon and his Collection of British Drawings, , Master Drawings, vol. 38, Master Drawings Association, Inc., Fall 2000, p. 342, fig. 4, NC1 .M37 (YCBA) Another copy available as item V2329.Mathew Thomas Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827, his life, art & acquaintance , Hogarth Arts, London, 2010, pp.65,132,140..., Pl. III, NJ18 R79 P39 2010 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 5, 29, no. 118, col. pl. 6, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 105, no. 86, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)