Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James Pollard, 1792–1867, British
Title:
North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
43 x 60 3/4 inches (109.2 x 154.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "J. Pollard | 1821 [possibly 1824]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.506
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | signboard | street | bonnets (hats) | harnesses | yokes (animal equipment) | hats | coats | dresses | cityscape | luggage | carriages | bottles | whips (animal equipment) | men | women | running | driving | children | wheels | shops | doors | windows | buildings | reins | dog (animal) | apples | donkey | horses (animals) | peacock (bird)
Associated Places:
Islington | Shropshire | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
All The Queen's Horses (National Horse Racing Museum, 2003-04-26 - 2003-08-23)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)

Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)

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

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)

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:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 180-181, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 268, no. 293, pl. 97, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

English Animal and Sporting Pictures in the Mellon Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns#14, April 1963, p. 288, fig. 10, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File: V1168

Exhibition Catalogue. 1821. 53d, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 53, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1821, p. 28, no. 559, N5054 A53 v. 2 nos. 29-49 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 13, no. 111, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)

John Ford, Ackermann 1783-1983 : the business of art, London, 1983, p. 183, N8640 A25 +F67 (YCBA)

Walter Gilbey, Animal Painters of England from the year 1650, a brief history of their lives and works. Illustrated with twenty-eight specimens of their paintings, chiefly from wood engravings by F. Babbage. , Vinton, London, 1900-1911, p. 100 (v. 2), ND1383 G7 G55 (YCBA)

Kentucky Horse Park, All the queen's horses, the role of the horse in British history , Lexington, KY, 2003, p. 189, no. 46.2, SF284 G7A55 2003 + (YCBA)

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. 189 (v.1), no. 362, pl. 153, 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. 82 (v.1), no. 295, pl. 48, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 30, 70, no. 2, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

N. C. Selway, Golden age of coaching and sport, as depicted by James Pollard , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-sea, 1972, p. 23, no. 6, NJ18 P7425 +S45 (YCBA)

N. C. Selway, James Pollard 1792-1867, painter of the age of coaching , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-sea, 1965, pp. 19, 25, no. 7, NJ18 P7425 +S452 1965 (YCBA)

N. C. Selway, Regency Road, The Coaching Prints of James Pollard , p. 72, no. 23, NJ18 P7425 +S453 1957 Oversize (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine paintings and drawings of the English school : 30 November 1960, Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1960, p. 44, lot 175, Auction catalogues (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. 41 (v.1), no. 152, pl. 48, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:990