Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.646
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
stores | smoke | chimneys (architectural elements) | dogs (animals) | petticoat | street | animals | labor | castle | fence | stonework | carriage | gathering | ladder | uniform | genre subject | town | family | cityscape | road | city | buildings | women | children | gown | workers | couples | men | walking | shopping | meeting
Associated Places:
Windsor Castle | England | Berkshire | Windsor | Windsor and Maidenhead | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 230-231, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil) from the XVIth century to the XIXth century, (describing more than 800 painters) , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, UK, 1974, v. 8, pp. 666-669, ND1354 G73 1971+ (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 202, no. VI.30, pl. 174, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, pp. 12, 18-19, cat. 5, V2722 (YCBA)The British Castle, A Symbol in Stone, , The Wall Street International, May 11, 2017, https://wsimag.com/art/25777-the-british-castle-a-symbol-in-stone
Gallery Label:
Thames Street, Windsor’s main commercial thoroughfare, proves a vibrant cityscape on George Vincent’s canvas: workers drag goods and chisel stone, families parade past storefronts, and white smoke wafts from chimneys. Equally central to urban life on London’s eastern periphery, though, is the figure of Windsor Castle itself—quite literally elevated above the street’s hurried activity. Like those workers and families, the castle is a character. Stately, omnipresent, and implacable, it appears an architectural manifestation of the British royal family. From their perch above these pedestrian happenings, monarchs keep watch over their domain. Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)