Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748, Flemish, active in Britain (1708; from 1733)
Title:
Children Playing with a Hobby Horse
Date:
between 1741 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.491
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | landscape | portrait | tail (hanging) | garden | mask (costume) | hairpiece | gowns | coat | dresses | view | hobbyhorse | toy (recreational artifact) | childhood | stripes | children | youth | boy | girls | Rococo | games | riding | rope | family | sisters | brother | feather | columns (architectural elements) | porch | veranda
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Berkeley Art Museum, 1995-08-23 - 1995-11-19)

The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1995-12-10 - 1996-02-04)

The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Joslyn Art Museum, 1996-03-09 - 1996-05-05)
Publications:
Christie's Sale Catalogue : Fine English Pictures : 17 March 1967, Christie's, March 17, 1967, p. 4, no. 8, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 172-173, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

James Christen Steward, The New Child : British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830, , University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 1995, p. 69, pl. 41, N6766 S78 1995 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:975