- Title:
- A Lady Reading
- Additional Title(s):
- A Lady Reading, called Mrs. William Hunt
- Date:
- ca. 1835
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm), Sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (28.6 x 19.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.862
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- book | drapes | furniture | genre subject | home | lady | leisure | middle-class | portrait | reading | rug | settee | textures | wife | window | woman
- Associated People:
- Hunt, Sarah (née Holloway) (1812–1857), wife of William Henry Hunt (1790–1864)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10945
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 22, 80-1, no. 46, fig. 12, N7630 C27 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 10, no. 40, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 154-56, no. 66, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]