Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Title:
A View in China: Cultivating the Tea Plant
Date:
ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 1/2 × 72 13/16 inches (123.2 × 184.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.22
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | cargo boats | people | trade | tea | boats | merchants | river | food | mountains | dock | landscape
Associated Places:
China
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The China Trade - Romance and Reality (De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park, 1979-06-22 - 1979-09-16)
Publications:
An Illustrated Journey Round the World, Folio Society, London, p. 183, NJ18 .D21 D3 2007 Oversize (YCBA)

Patrick Conner, The China Trade : 1600-1860, Brighton, 1986, pp.64-65, fig. 81a, N7343.5 .C66 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 82-83, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1978, p. 3612 (vol. 10), NJ18 F2164 A3 1978 (YCBA)

The exhibition of the Royal Academy : the forty-second, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1810, p. 5, no. 27, N5054 A54 (YCBA)

The exhibition of the Royal Academy : the forty-second, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1810, p. 5, no. 27, https://chronicle250.com/1810#catalogue
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:263