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 and gouache, touched with 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:
tattoos | ethnology | science | flowers (plants) | botany | settlement | lance | sword | figure study | women | spear | religious and mythological subject | hair | miniature painting | root
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, 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 2022Thomas 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 012The worshipful company of painters, otherwise painter-stainers : its hall, pictures, and plate, London, p. 50, Ndq22 P2 906pEdward 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, no. 122, April, 1972, pp. 330-31, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another copy available in Vertical File - V 2330