Label on verso, upper left: “Case 57”; upper left: “Painting in England, 1700-1850 | The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond 20 | Artist: Samuel Collings | Title: ‘The Thames Frozen Over’ |Cat. No. 278 | Medium: Oil on Canvas <Loan No.> | Insure for: Sales Price: | Lender: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon | Address: Upperville, Virginia”; center left: “N.B. This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture | Royal Academy of Arts | Winter Exhibition, 1950-51 | Name of Artist S. Collings. Ser. No. 190 | Title of Work The Thames Frozen over in 1789 | (R.A. 1789) | Name and Address of Owner Miss Joan D. Parkes, | Preyste House, North St. Petworth, Ssx. | (Please correct any particulars not properly given)”; lower left, handwritten: “Samuel Collings. Frost on the | Thames, Exhibited 1789 at R. A. | together with self protrait left to | C.H. Parker (see letter Andrew Jackson | 1864) A & M. Collings (see [...]ills Somerset Ho. Collings probably | descended from [...] with | Byerleys. See pedigree on sheet 19th century | note paper. Thomas [...]; lower center: “[handwritten, underlined] The Thames Frozen Over Below London Bridge, | Showing Tower of London & St Paul’s Cathedral. | (The artist is seen on extreme right.) | Oil painting by Samuel Collings. (Working 1780- | 1790.) | Collections: - | [not underlined] Misses Anne & Mary Collings | 1864. | Charles H. Parker | & by descent to the [...] owner | Exhibited | Royal Academy 1789 | & Royal Academy | 1950/1 No. 190 | [typed] P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. | Established 1760) | Experts, Valuers and Dealers | in | Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings | By The | Old and Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telephone: | Hyde Park 1943-44.”; lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 4086 | A/N No. 2791”; lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 4080 | A/N No. 2791”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.99
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
flags | signs | genre subject | boats | staff (walking stick) | braziers (heating equipment) | shovel | cityscape | hotel | costume | cathedral | church | monument | stands | river | booths, exhibition | tower (building division) | masts | masts | advertising | people | children | frost | winter | snow | walking | market (event) | selling | fire | fair | ice | women | men | donkey
Associated Places:
St. Paul's Cathedral | Thames | London | Tower of London | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital ArchiveChristie's sale catalogue : English pictures and drawings, 1700-1950 : 11 March 1960, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 11, 1960, p. 22, Lot 107, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 54-55, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Exhibition Catalogue. 1789. 21st, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 21, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1789, p. 14, no. 409, N5054 A53 v. 1:2 nos 14-28 (YCBA)Basil S. Long, Pictures: Samuel Collins, Connoisseur, Vol. LXXXV, January 1930, p. 30, N1 +C75 85 (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, p. 146 (v.1), no. 278, pl. 29, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 71 (v.1), no. 257, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868 : Winter exhibition, 1951-52, , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, p. 35, no. 53, N5054 .A545 1951/52 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 21 (v.1), no. 20, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)