Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in pen and gray ink, lower right: "1790 T.H."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.152
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | weir | Palladian | men | women | boating | food | trees | buildings | boats | bridge (built work) | city | river | cityscape | family | children | barges | landscape | reflections | leisure | fancy dress | sitting | dogs (animals) | picnic | playing
Associated Places:
Pulteney Bridge | Europe | United Kingdom | England | Bath and Northeast Somerset | Bath | Avon
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)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)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)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 30, no. 222, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 105-6, 194, no. VI.17, pl. 83, ND1354.4 H38 (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, p. 32, no. 13, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Eric Shanes, More art on the Line, The Royal Academy's Antique Room in the exhibition of 1792 , Burlington Magazine, vol.150,no.1261, April 2008, pp. 224-231, fig. 12, N1 B87 + (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine English eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 20 November 1963, Sotheby's, November 20, 1963, p. 17, lot 59, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 164-65, no. 141, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 38-39, no. 13, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Thomas Hearne chose to depict sites with an eye to their marketability. Bath, the most fashionable provincial city in eighteenth-century Britain, was an obvious choice. This grand exhibition watercolor was shown at the Royal Academy in 1792 and engraved in the same year with the title South East View of the City of Bath. The scene shows Bath’s stylish residents shuttling to and fro across the river Avon between the city’s South Parade and the Spring Garden pleasure grounds. Although made with black and white engraving in mind, Hearne has evoked the warm limestone used in all Bath’s buildings through rose-tinted coloring and matching autumnal foliage. Gallery label for 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)