Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

George Morland, 1763–1804, British

Title:

Selling Guinea Pigs

Date:

ca. 1789

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1981.25.452

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)

Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)

Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)

Publications:

J. T. Herbert Baily, George Morland, a biographical essay by J.T. Herbert Baily, with a catalogue of the engraved pictures , Otto limited, London, 1906, p. 83, NJ18 M83 B35 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Extra Number of 1901 Connoisseur

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 162-163, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

George Dawe, Life of George Morland, with an introduction and notes by J.J. Foster ... illustrated by full-page plates from examples in the National and private galleries. , Dickinsons, London, 1904, pp. 40, 145, 173, pl. XXII, NJ18 M83 D5 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 44, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

John Hassell, Memoirs of the life of George Morland, Albion Press, London, 1806, pp. 149, 170, Online resource Available in Google Books

John Hassell, Memoirs of the life of George Morland, Albion Press, London, 1806, pp. 149, 170, ND497 M8 H3 1806 OVERSIZE (YCBA) in Rare Bks and Mss

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 145 (v.1), no. 277, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Ralph Richardson, George Morland's pictures, their present possessors, with details of the collection. , E. Stock, London, 1897, pp. 13, 36, 95, NJ18 M83 R55 (YCBA)

Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by George Morland : held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, , Wyman & Sons, London, 1904, p. 9, no. 28, NJ18 M83 A12 1904 (YCBA)

George Charles Williamson, George Morland, 1907, p. 134, no. 238, Online resource available in Google Books

David Winter, George Morland (1763-1804), 1977, pp. viii, 44, 228, no. 27, NJ18 M83 W56 1977A (YCBA) Thesis--Stanford University

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:936