- Title:
- The Ballad Singer
- Date:
- ca. 1764
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm), Frame: 37 × 32 1/2 inches (94 × 82.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.456
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.456FR
- Subject Terms:
- candle | chiaroscuro | lamp (lighting device) | lantern (lighting device) | light | music | neckpiece | pattern | performer | portrait | singer | singing | song | torch (lighting device) | woman
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:940
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) [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]
David Alexander, Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. v, 3, no. 1, NE631.2 .A43 (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. 164-165, N590.2 .A83 (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. 133 (v.1), no. 253, pl. 139, 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. 66-67 (v.1), no. 241, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (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. 46, 99, no. 72, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]