Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778, Irish
Title:
Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.536
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sky | animals | couple | sheep | grazing | landscape | view | boats | staff (walking stick) | path | bonnet (hat) | dress (costume) | shawls | hat | shawl | islands | trees | hills | mountains | rural area | pasture | farmland | lake | man | woman | farming | agriculture | walking
Associated Places:
Ireland | Erne, River | United Kingdom | Fermanagh | Northern Ireland
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)

Thomas Roberts (National Gallery of Ireland, 2009-03-28 - 2009-06-28)

Irish Silver (Clark Art Institute, 1984-09-25 - 1984-12-11)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 190-191, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 77, 79-80, 82, 233, no. 103, fig. 5 (p. 82), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Laffan, Thomas Roberts, landscape and patronage in eighteenth-century Ireland. , Churchill House Press, Tralee, 2009, p. 79, fig. 58, NJ18.R544 L35 2009 + (YCBA)

Finola O'Kane, Landscape design and revolution in Ireland and the United States 1688-1815, London, 2023, p.50, fig.49, SB470.5 .O43 2023 (YCBA) Oversize
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1020