Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Edward Dayes, 1763–1804, British

Title:

Queen Square, London

Date:

1786

Materials & Techniques:

Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed in black ink, lower left: "E Dayes | 1786"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.4639

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (National Gallery of Art, 1993-05-02 - 1993-07-25)

The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1993-01-15 - 1993-07-25)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)

Publications:

John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 60, no. 82, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)

John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 278, no. 79, pl. 79, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Jane Bayard, Works of splendor and imagination, The exhibition watercolor, 1770-1870 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 43, no. 13, ND1928 B39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

John Blackwood, London's immortals, the complete outdoor commemorative statues , Savoy Press, London, 1989, p. 44, DA689 M7 B53 1989 (YCBA)

Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787 : the nineteenth, Royal Academy of Arts, Lonon, 1787, vol. 1:2, p. 18, no. 582, N5054 .A53 (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 94, 188, no. VI.2, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, The London Square, 1600 to the Present, , Record of Activities and Research Reports, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, pp. 104-07, N330 W3 C457 (HAAS)

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, The London town garden 1740-1840, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001, pp. 205-206, p. 11, fig. 219, SB451.36 G7 L68 2001 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 79, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Diana Scarisbrick, Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron, Thames & Hudson, 2014, pp. 41, 43, 135, fig. 12, DA497.Y3 S37 2014 (YCBA)

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 199-200, fig. 172, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 164-6, no. 140, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The great age of British watercolours, 1750-1880, Prestel, Munich London, 1993, pp. 83, 303, no. 106, pl. 66, ND1928 W57 1993 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7718