Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
Title:
Figures and Animals in a Vineyard
Date:
ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with gum over graphite, with scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (41.9 × 52.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.2005
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | vineyards | village | reading | priest | genre subject | men | food | grapes | dogs (animals) | harvest | donkey
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)

Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Jane Bayard, Works of splendor and imagination, The exhibition watercolor, 1770-1870 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 76, pl. 78, ND1928 B39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 175-77, no. 77, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In 1827 Lewis crossed the Alps into the Val d’Aosta, journeying on through northern Italy, and visiting Verona and Venice before returning home late in the year. His travels in Italy inspired a series of richly colored watercolors depicting the lives of simple peasants, often at their devotions. In this example workers pause from gathering grapes to join a seated Capuchin friar who leads them in reciting from his breviary. 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)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10746