Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 9 13/16 inches (15.2 x 24.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.913
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
standing | auction | men | auctioneer | hats | bookshelves | benches, meeting house | world map | books | genre subject | dog (animal) | sitting
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 279, 281, fig. 7, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Madeleine Pelling, Lives Laid Bare, Celebrity, Death and the Georgian Auction, https://www.historytoday.com/madeleine-pelling/lives-laid-bare-celebrity-death-and-georgian-auction , History Today, February 27, 2018, Avaliable OnlineJ. 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. 41, 89, no. 49, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 72-3, no. 102, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 279, 281, fig. 7, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)Margaret Willes, Reading matters, five centuries of discovering books , Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., London, 2008, p. 128, fig. 42, Z987.5.G7 W55X 2008 (LSF)