A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black ink, lower left: "MA Rooker"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1128
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dog (animal) | architectural subject | bowls | genre subject | hats | benches | inn | fence | castle | trees | ball games | men | leisure
Associated Places:
England | Berkshire | United Kingdom | Hurst | St. Nicholas Hurst
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)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 123, 373, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAJudy Egerton, L. G. Duke and his collection of English drawings, Old Water-Colour Society's Club Annual Volume, vo. 49, 1974, pp. 10, 24, pl. I, N12 .O54 A1 + Oversize (YCBA)Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 39, no. 317, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 65, 134, no. 159, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 109, no. 90, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)