Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828, British
Title:: Christening of the Heir
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.45
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: blessing | men | sisters | women | family | interior | joy | father | mother | husband | infant | children | girls | wife | bowl | windows | conversation piece | stool | chairs | curtains | table | carpet | costume | genre subject | book | heir | priest | religious and mythological subject | ceremony | christening
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 22-23, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:558