Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, ca. 1533–before 1588, French, active in England from ca.1580.

Formerly attributed to John White, active 1585–1593, British
Title:
A Young Daughter of the Picts
Date:
ca. 1585
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and gold on parchment
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (26 × 18.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "Georg Hüfnagel | 9822 | UBZZ"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2646
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
chains | belt | village | windmill | cornflowers | irises | violets | carnations | lilies | four-o'clocks (plants) | religious and mythological subject | hair | flowers (plants) | settlement | woman | root | ethnology | botany | science | miniature painting | tattoos | figure study | spear | lance | sword
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rachel Lambert Mellon’s collection of botanical artworks (The New York Botanical Garden, 2016-10-08 - 2017-02-15)

Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)

A New World - England's First View of America (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-06 - 2007-06-01)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 240, no. 1, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Peter W. M. Blayney, Material London, , Philadelphia, U.S., pp. 322-43, DA680 M38X 2000 (YCBA)

Martina Droth, Britain in the world : Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2019, p. 17, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA)

Mark Evans, Renaissance Watercolours, V&A Publishing, London, p. 224, fig. 178, ND1925 .E93 2020 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Wilde Americk : Discovery and Exploration of the New World, , New Haven, 2001, pp. 9, 13, No. 31, V 0857 (YCBA)

Anthony Gerbino, Compass and rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England, 1500-1750, Yale University Press, New Haven, USA; London, p. 60, NA1995 .G47 2009+ (YCBA)

Mac Griswold, I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022, after p. 272, CT275.M469122 G75 2022

Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2007, pp. 174-75, pl. III, F229 .H2713 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Theresa M. Kelley, Clandestine marriage, botany and Romantic culture , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD., 2012, pp. 90-92, fig. 12, PN56.B73 K45 2012 (YCBA)

Jason David LaFountain, The Puritan art world [ PhD Dissertation - Harvard University - May 2013 ], Cambridge, MA, 2013, pp. 142, 387, fig. 154, N6916 .L35 2013A OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Amy Meyers, Modesty and Munificence, Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April 2007, p. 28-29, fig. 2, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Kim Sloan, European visions, American voices , no. 172, British Museum Publications, London, 2008, pp. 90,92,108, fig. 10, NJ18 W578 E9 2008 + (YCBA)

The visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds' visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, W. Pollard, Exeter, pp. 90, 553, Bb36 012

The worshipful company of painters, otherwise painter-stainers : its hall, pictures, and plate, London, p. 50, Ndq22 P2 906p

Edward Town, A biographical dictionary of London painters, 1547-1625, Walpole Society, 76, Oxford, U.K., p. 40, 57, N12 .W35 A1+ (YCBA)

Giles Waterfield, Mr. Mellon, RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, No. 96, Autumn 2007, pp. 70, 71, V 1905 (YCBA)

Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, pp. 330-331, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12454