- Title:
- Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Former Title(s):
- The Pagoda at Kew
- Date:
- 1762
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 18 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (47.6 x 73 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: "Painting in England, 1700-1850 | [...]"; upper left, handwritten: "Box | 89"; upper left: "Musem [...] Rotterdam | Exp. | English Landscape | Coll. Mrs. D Hart | Artiste Richard Wilson | Titre Kew Gardens: the Pagoda and Bridge"; center left: "Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 04248 | A/N No. [handwritten] 4185"; center left: "Leicester Museums & Art Gallery | Exhibition A Hundred Years of British Landscape Painting | (1750-1850) | Date 9 Oct. - 4 Nov. 1956 | Catalogue No. 3 | Title of Picture The Pagoda at Kew | Artist Richard Wilson | Name of Owner Mrs. Geoffrey Hart"; lower left: "N.B.--This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture | Royal Academy of Arts | Winter Exhibition, 19[59?]-96 | Artist Richard Wilson | Title The Pagoda at Kew Ser. No. | 468 | Name and | Address of | Owner [...] | {Please correct any particulars not properly [...]}"; lower center: "[...]6671--B1--K | City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | [handwritten] Wilson | Pagoda at Kew | Lent [...] Chancell[...]"; upper center: "British Council--Fine Arts Department | Owner | Name Mrs. Hart | Address 9 Hyde Park Gardens, London W. 2 | Work | Title Kew Gardens: The Pagoda & Bridge 1761-2 | Artist Richard Wilson | Exhibition | English Landscape Painting, | Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1955. | no. | 64"; lower right: "K 531003 | [logo] | Allied Van Lines | 63 | PAT.No. 3,489,433"; lower right: "62/11/21/10"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.172
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.172FR
- Subject Terms:
- boat | bridge (built work) | Chinese gardens | gardens | hills | horse (animal) | landscape | men | pagoda | path | pleasure gardens | river | sunset | walking
- Associated Places:
- England | Greater London | Kew | Richmond upon Thames | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Thames | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:381
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Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (Nationalmuseum, 1997-01 - 1997-04-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (The Courtauld Gallery, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (National Museum Wales, 1983-01-29 - 1983-03-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Britain, 1982-11-03 - 1983-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 194, N1 C75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Adrian Bury, Richard Wilson, R. A., The grand classic , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, London, 1947, pp. 25-6, NJ18 W72 B8 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Richard Wilson and his circle : organized by the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, January, 1949, The Tate Gallery, London, , Tate Britain, London, 1949, pp. 14-15, no. 10, NJ18 W72 T37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catalogue of pictures by Richard Wilson and his circle, November 17-January 9 1948-9 , City Museum & Art Gallery Birmingham, Birmingham, 1948, p. 13, no. 11, V 2449 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Chambers, Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils. Engraved ... from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers ... To which is annexed, a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c., London, p. 15, Folio 73 757C [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : Small collection of choice pictures, formed by Colin A. Mackenzie, Esq., deceased . . . : 6 March 1858, Christie's, March 6, 1858, p. 6, lot 34, Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : The beautiful cabinet of Dutch and English pictures of Richard Winstanley, Esq., deceased : 16 March 1850, Christie's, March 16, 1850, p. 11, lot 58, Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : The highly important collection of fine pictures and drawings of Louis Huth, Esq., deceased : 20 May 1905, Christie's, May 20, 1905, p. 28, lot 136, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : The renowned collection of ancient and modern pictures and water-colour drawings, of that well-known patron of art, Joseph Gillott, Esq., deceased : 26 April 1872, Christie's, April 26, 1972, p. 35, lot 236, Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, pp. 179-180, pl. 41b, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Douglas Cooper, Richard Wilson's Views of Kew, Burlington Magazine, vol. XC, London, December 1948, p. 346, N1 +B87 90 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 252, 253, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martina Droth, Britain in the world : Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2019, p. 52, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 76, ND466 .G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Harris, Sir William Chambers : Architect to George III, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996, pp. 67, 223, no. 67, fig. 97, NJ18 .C37 S57 1996 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Olivia Horsfall Turner, Nobleness & grandeur : forging historical landscape in Britain 1760-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2005, pp. 15, 21, no. 37, V 1420 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mark Laird, A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 254, 255, pl. 228, SB457.6 .L35 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Macock, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China, London, p. 38, DS708 N542+ (BEINECKE) [ORBIS]
John Macock, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China, London, p. 38, 54139566 [ORBIS]
Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 345, fig. 19.14, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA) [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. 47 (v.1), no. 20, pl. 209, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [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, pp. 15-16 (v.1), no. 55, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry, J. Haberkorn, London, p. 2, 6, Folio A 2017 9 Copy 1 (YCBA) [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. 55, 115, no. 113, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 262, 263, no. 77, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Albert Forbes Sieveking, Sir William Temple upon the gardens of Epicurus, with other XVIIth century garden essays, p. 2, Uzb81 908S (LSF) [ORBIS]
Stacey Sloboda, Chinoiserie : commerce and critical ornament in eighteenth-century Britain, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2014, pp. 185-86, fig. 4.21, NK1443 S56 2014 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp. 19, 210-11, no. 98, no. 98, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Modern paintings and drawings : 20 February 1952, Sotheby's, February 20, 1952, p. 11, lot 81, Film B12 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, with Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online : A Digital Catalogue Raisonne, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2014, no. P109, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261 [Website]
The Spectator ..., Spectator, no. 414, S. Buckley and J. Tonson, London, 25 Jun 1712, p. 550, 111 Sp32 (SML) [ORBIS]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 60-61 (v.1), no. 224, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]