Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Title:
Revellers on a Coach
Date:
between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 5/8 x 24 3/8 inches (42.2 x 61.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.222
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
celebrating | woman | men | man | roof | road | balloon hat | fall | hat | coach | carriage | umbrella | donkey | sky | dog (animal) | revelers | party
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)

Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)

British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)

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)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 150, 151, 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, pp. 6-7,25, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 12, no. 94, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)

Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians : life and art in London's golden age, , Allen Lane, London, 2013, pp. 315-316, 317, fig. 147, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (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. 74, no. 81, NC1477 .G63 E54

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 42, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, pp. 34, 153, 236, 237, 239, 345, cat. no. 128, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (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. 31, 72, no. 8, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 620, TLS Historical Archive

Eric Shanes, The Dover Mail - by Turner or by 'Girton' ?, Turner Society News, no. 121, Spring 2014, p. 8, 9 [fn 9], NJ18 T85 T86 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:732