Watercolor with gray ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (33.7 x 51.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower center: "S H Grimm fecit 1776"; in brown ink, verso, now covered by backing sheet: "A view of Kennington. Common by Samuel Jerome Grimm | who was in England in 1760. and died here in 1794"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1531
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
buildings | trees | children | people | leisure | women | men | walking | fences | bonnets (hats) | costume | capes (outerwear) | dresses | carriage | landscape | genre subject | common | horses (animals) | pigs | donkeys | cows
Associated Places:
England | Kent | Kennington | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
Publications:
An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, p. 39, no. 38, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon ShelfWilliam Hauptman, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) : a very English Swiss, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2014, pp. 126-27, cat. no. 39, NJ18.G81 H38 2014 (YCBA)Justin Lovill, 1776 : A London Chronicle or How to Divert Oneself while Losing an Empire, The Bunbury Press, London, 2019, p. 18, DA682 .L66 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 8, pl. 8, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 104, no. 85, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)