Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
Design for a Wall of the Chapel of Revealed Religion
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen in gray and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in black ink ower left: "scale in feet"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4356
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
plans | allegorical | design | religious | figures | architectural subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)

Revealed Religion - Benjamin West's Commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey (San Antonio Museum of Art, 1983-09-18 - 1983-11-13)

Benjamin West and his American Students (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1981-01-30 - 1981-04-19)

Benjamin West and his American Students (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1980-10-06 - 1981-01-05)
Publications:
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, pp. 158-60, p. 2 in unnumered plate section between pp. 270 and 271, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 14 March 1967, Christie's, March 14, 1967, p. 11, lot 43, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 37-38, no. 86, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 34, no.85, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)

Terry Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 122-23, fig. 96, NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)

Andrew Hemingway, Transatlantic Romanticism : British and American art and literature, 1790/1860, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst and Boston, 2015, pp. 107, 109 and color plate, color pl. 7, NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)

Elizabeth Jacklin, A Rubensian drawing for a lost painting, Benjamin West's study for Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea , British Art Journal, Vol. 14, Autumn, 2013, pp. 40-43, pls. . 2 and 3, N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Ruth S. Kraemer, Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1975, p. 18, fig. 13, NJ18 W52 +K73 Oversize (YCBA)

Nancy L. Pressly, Revealed religion : Benjamin West's commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 1983, p. 38, no. 2, NJ18 .W52 P74 (YCBA)

David Spadafora, The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990, p. 89, HN385 .S676 1990 (YCBA)

Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 386-7, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 178, no. 151, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14180