Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Seguier, 1785–1856, British
Title:
Excavating the Regent's Canal, with a View of Marylebone Chapel
Date:
between 1812 and 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower right: "J. SEGUIER"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.153
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
town | landscape | genre subject | costume | excavating equipment | fence | shovel | carriage | workers | construction | excavating | excavation | chapel | canal
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Wigan | Marylebone | London | Greater London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 21, no. 203, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)

Mireille- Galinou, Cottages and villas, the birth of the garden suburb , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010, pp. 248-47, DA685 S144 G35 2010 + (YCBA)

Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil) from the XVIth century to the XIXth century, (describing more than 800 painters) , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, UK, 1974, v. 7, pp. 570-571, ND1354 G73 1971+ (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 182-183, no. V.10, pl. 157, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:370