Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Title:
Children by a Brook
Date:
ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in lower left: "F. Danby"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.193
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
jug | basket | bonnet (hat) | dress (costume) | genre subject | children | boys | girl | red | trees | stream | woods | stairs | steps | brook | rocks (landforms) | fish
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 76-77, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 221, fig.. 16, 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. 152 (v.1), no. 290, pl. 65, 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. 52 (v.1), no. 190, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Christiana Payne, Silent Witnesses : Trees in British Art, 1760-1870, Sansom & Co., Bristol, 2017, p. 123, fig. 59, NX650.T74 P39 2017 (YCBA)

William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1805, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2024, p. 222, fig. 11.1, PR5864 .A2 E54 2024 Oversisze (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 42, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:703