Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and possibly dated, lower right: "E. Edward | [?]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.254
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | nave | audience | music | interior | people | organs (aerophones) | chorus | genre subject | commemoration | mass | performance
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Westminster Abbey | Greater London | London | City of Westminster
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)National Portrait Gallery (National Portrait Gallery, 1985-11 - 1986-02-23)Luther and the Consequences on the Arts (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1983-11-10 - 1984-01-08)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 53, V 0909 (YCBA)David Cannadine, Westminster Abbey, A Church in History, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, p. 268, fig. 134, DA687.W5 W48 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 92-93, N590.2 .A83 (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. 45, 97, no. 67, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout no. 55, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)