- Title:
- The Lending Library
- Date:
- between 1800 and 1811
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, black ink and brown ink on medium, lightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (17.5 × 21.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image in pen and black ink, upper center: "Sermons"; upper right: "Voyages & Travels" | left: "Novels"; center: "Romances"; "Tales"; right:"Plays"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.867
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- books | caricature | dog (animal) | lending | library (building) | shelves | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8602
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [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]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 10, no. 37, DA485 F25 1990 (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. 41, 89, no. 48, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]