Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "F."; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center; "Paul Sandby: Landy Seated at a Drawing Board"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1881
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | portrait | hat | desk | drawing table | woman | copying | lady | drawing (activity)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Seeing Double : Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)
Publications:
Emma Barker, Art & visual culture, 1600-1850 : academy to avant-garde, , Tate Publishing, London, 2012, pp. , 9, Pl. 0.8, N6756 .A78 2012 (YCBA)Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 10, no. 32, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians : life and art in London's golden age, , Allen Lane, London, 2013, pp. 170, 171, fig. 74, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (YCBA)Richard Green, Paul Sandby's Young Pupil Identified, Burlington Magazine, vol.154, no. 1310, May 2012, pp. 312-15, fig. 1, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (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. 48, 102, no. 81, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Kim Sloan, 'A Noble Art' : Amateur artists and drawing masters, c. 1600-1800, British Museum Publications, London, 2000, p. 232, N6766 .S57 2000 (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 51, 53, no. 69, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 192-3, no. 155, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)