- Title:
- Linen Market, Dominica
- Former Title(s):
Linen Day, Roseau, Dominica [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Linen Day, Roseau, Dominica - A Market Scene, c.1780- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 19 5/8 × 27 inches (49.8 × 68.6 cm), Frame: 23 5/8 × 31 × 2 inches (60 × 78.7 × 5.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Typeset inscription on dealer’s label on back of painting: "Collection of Governor Young of Antigua"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.76
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.76FR
- Subject Terms:
- basket | boats | buildings | chairs | children | corncob | costume | Creole | fruit | genre subject | linen (material) | market (event) | men | merchants | parasols | produce stand | sea | selling | servants | stalls | stools | umbrellas | vase | vegetables | women
- Associated Places:
- Dominica | Lesser Antilles | Roseau | West Indies
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:586
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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