Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838, British
Title:: The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Label on verso, lower right: “Owner | Mellon, Mr. Paul | Artist Cosway, Richard, | Attr. to | Title The Vials of Wrath | National Gallery of Art [handwritten] PM 1966”; upper left, handwritten: “Case 461 | Not Ex.”; upper left: R. Cosway, R.A. | 117 The Vials of Wrath”
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1976.7.71
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: rebellions | death | censer | punishment | judgements | Judaism | Christianity | Old Testament | flames | destruction | earth | ceremony | tribe | clouds | religious and mythological subject | gesture
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 70-71, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:304