North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire
Date:
1767
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gold paint, on mount, lower center: "North West View of WAKEFIELD LODGE in Whittlebury Forest"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4648
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
forest | trees | river | figures | men | women | north | west | sailboat | boat | carriage | landscape | clouds | cattle | cattle | sky
Associated Places:
Northamptonshire | Whittlebury | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2009-07-25 - 2009-10-18)Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009-11-07 - 2010-02-07)Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, 2010-03-13 - 2010-06-13)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 256, no. 33, pl. 33, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 271, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 74-75, no. 61, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)Stephen Daniels, Paul Sandby, picturing Britain , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009, pp. 206-7, no. 87, NJ18 Sa56 P3 2009 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Lady Lever Art Gallery, British watercolours and drawings : Lord Leverhulme's collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, , Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2010, p.169, N1455 A85 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Art & visual culture, a reader , Tate Publishing, London, 2012, pp. 177, 180-82, N5300 .A683 2012 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 33, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 271, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)Society of Artists of Great Britain, A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, etc. : exhibited at the great room in Spring Garden, Charing Cross, April the twenty-second, 1767 / by the Society of Artists of Great Britain incorporated by his, William Bunce, London, UK, 1767, p. 21, no. 272, N5055 S6 C3 (RARE BOOKS, YCBA) Also Available online (18th Century Collection Online - Gale)David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660-1815, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pp. 215-16, 259, fig. 218, N6766 S65 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 58-9, no. 77, 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. 160-1, no. 136, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)