Pen and brown ink, blue wash, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 14 5/8 inches (23.5 × 37.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed below image, on mount in graphite; "An Interior view of a Paddington Canal passage boat. J. Gilpin. is suddenly aroused out of his | slumbers at the end of the journey by the importunities of the rival Uxbridge | waiters to land & give his orders for dinner. | D 1773/ E.F.Burney 1760 - 1848 | John Gilpin in the cabin of the Uxbridge Passage Boat or the Paddington Canal being importuned at | Uxbridge wharf by the rival waiters of the Blue Boar & the Golden Fleece. | Inscribed on reverse PL. XIV and has probably been engraved. LGD"; lower right: "Repr. Architectural Review, July 1949, p 30 A20"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Plate XIV"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5214
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)
Publications:
Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 19, no. 165, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 206, no. 433, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 82-83, no. 34, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In the 182os Edward Francis Burney wrote his own sequel to William Cowper’s enormously popular ballad The Diverting History of John Gilpin of 1782. Cowper’s poem described the escapades of a frugal London tradesman who was persuaded by his wife to take a holiday at Edmonton to celebrate their wedding anniversary, only to be thwarted by a runaway horse. Burney planned to illustrate his sequel, and this design belongs to that unfinished project. Here Gilpin is caught like a latter-day Hercules between two waiters on a pleasure boat anxious for his custom. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)