Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794, Swiss
Title:
The French Lady in London
Date:
ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash black ink and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "S.H. Grimm fecit."; upper left: "the Geese watching the Capitole"; center: "Representation of the Pic of Teneriffe"; lower center: "Lecture | upon | Heads"; in brown ink, verso, upper center: "The French Lady in London. N. 9."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6038
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dresses | chairs | caricature | tables (support furniture) | hats | draperies | genre subject | women | fans (costume accessories) | interior | sunsuits | windows | wigs | cat (Felidae) | men | French | ruffle | dogs (animals) | parrots
Associated Places:
London | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2014-01-17 - 2014-04-20)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

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)
Publications:
Rotha Mary Clay, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of Burgdorf in Switzerland With a foreword by His Excellency Monsieur Charles Rudolph Paravicini and a chapter contributed by Paul Girardin., Faber & Faber, London, 1941, opposite p. 37-, pl.42, NJ18 G81 C53 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. 61, no. 58, NC1477 .G63 E54

William Hauptman, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) : a very English Swiss, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2014, pp. 26-27, 90-92, cat. not. 18, NJ18.G81 H38 2014 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 102-3, no. 84, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9869