The Blue Passion Flower, for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (London, 1799–1812)
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (45.4 x 37.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.516
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
still life | botany | science | orange | green (color) | blue | white (color) | flora | temple | vines | flowers (plants) | stems | fruit | column (architectural element) | leaves | passion flower | botanical subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 509, fig. 29.46, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)