Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British
Title:
Sir James Thornhill's Boy Entering His Master's Painting Room to Deliver the Bundle and a Letter in the Presence of Lady Thornhill
Date:
1817
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, black ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 5/8 inches (32.9 × 24.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 8 | Sir James Thornhill's boy entering | his Master's painting room to | deliver the bundle and a letter in | the presence of Lady Thornhill"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.796
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | depiction | costume | canvas | boy | wife
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 127,131..., fig. 13, CT21 J85 2011 (YCBA)

Tessa Violet Murdoch, A glimpse of the apprentice William Hogarth engraving his master's shop-bill : the sign of the angel, Silver Studies, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 63-65, V 2571 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12516