John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British, Sir James Thornhill's Boy Entering His Master's Painting Room to Deliver the Bundle and a Letter in the Presence of Lady Thornhill, 1817
- Title:
- Sir James Thornhill's Boy Entering His Master's Painting Room to Deliver the Bundle and a Letter in the Presence of Lady Thornhill
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1817
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink, black ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 5/8 inches (32.9 × 24.4 cm), Image: 7 1/2 × 5 5/16 inches (19.1 × 13.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 8 | Sir James Thornhill's boy entering | his Master's painting room to | deliver the bundle and a letter in | the presence of Lady Thornhill"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.796
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boy | canvas | costume | depiction | genre subject | wife
- Associated People:
- Sir James Thornhill
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12516
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Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 127,131..., fig. 13, CT21 J85 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Tessa Violet Murdoch, A glimpse of the apprentice William Hogarth engraving his master's shop-bill : the sign of the angel, Silver Studies, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 63-65, V 2571 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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