Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Title:
Flying the Kite
Date:
ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 inches (14.3 × 22.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In pen and brown ink, lower center: the Figures 2 fu 5 In: or 6.
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.504
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
ladder | kite | genre subject | sporting art | building | children
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30)

Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31)

Rococo - Art and Design in Hogarth's England (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984-04-30 - 1984-12-07)
Publications:
Brian Allen, Francis Hayman, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1987, pp. 128-9, 181, 186, no. 55, NJ18 H3324 A54 (YCBA)

David Coke, Vauxhall Gardens, a history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 103, 113, fig. 84, DA689.G3 C65 2011 + OVERSIZE (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. 139, fig. 48, N6766 S78 1995 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10371