Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Title:
Mary Heberden
Date:
ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (73 x 62.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.299
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
woman | gray (color) | oval | hair | pearls | portrait | wig
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Sir Walter Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, with sixty-two photogravures and ten lithographic facsimiles in colour , Heinemann, London, 1898, p. 197, Folio A N 32 (YCBA)

Sir Walter Armstrong, Gainsborough and his place in English Art, Heinemann, London, 1904, p. 269, NJ18 G16 A6 (YCBA)

Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after old masters, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 499-500, cat. 525, NJ18.G16 B453 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 100-101, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Gillian Forrester, The Art of Daniel Gardner, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 10, p. 37, fig. 6, NJ18.R65 T7 (YCBA)

Bettina Gockel, Kunst und Politik der Farbe, Gainsboroughs Portraitmalerei , Berlin, 1999, p. 45, NJ18 G16 G62 1999 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 25, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Ernest Heberden, William Heberden, physician of the Age of Reason , Royal Society of Medicine Services Ltd., London ; New York, NY, 1989, pp. 171, 234 n64, R489 H37 H44 1989 (LSF) Copy also available in Medical Histoical Collection - Biog H354 H42 1989 (Med. Lib.)

Edward Alden Jewell, Show of Portraits Assists Hospital, Loan Exhibition covers 18th and 19th centuries here and in England , New York Times, New York, NY, Sunday, March 31, 1935, p. N4, http://search.proquest.com/docview/101542870?accountid=15172

M. Knoedler & Co, Exhibition of Pictures by Gainsborough, 1727-1788 : Monday, December 3rd to Saturday, December 15th, 1923, New York, NY, 1923, p. 11, no. 7, http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1598779

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 132 (v.1), no. 251, pl. 89, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 60 (v.1), no. 215, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Frederic George Stephens, Exhibition of the works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., Doherty & Co., London, 1885, p. 84, no. 179, WC 7428 (LSF)

The Four Georges, loan exhibition in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital at 25 Park Lane, February 23rd to March 30th ...1931. , London, 1931, no. 2, N6766 F58 (YCBA)

The Glories of the Georges, Guardian (Manchester, England), Guardian Newspapers Limited, Manchester, February 24, 1931, p. 8, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) http://search.proquest.com/docview/478176281?accountid=15172

The World of Art, Exhibitions to be seen this week , New York Times, New York, NY, December 16, 1923, SM 10, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) http://search.proquest.com/docview/103161579?accountid=15172

Ellis Waterhouse, Gainsborough, Edward Hulton, Ltd., London, 1958, p. 73, NJ18 G16 A12 W28 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 33, 1948-1950, p. 56, N12 W35 A12 + (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 24 (v.1), no. 88, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:794