Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Ashford, 1746–1824, British
Title:
Mount Kennedy, County Wicklow, Ireland
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 9/16 x 24 1/16 inches (42.1 x 61.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: “William Ashford 1746 - 1824 | View of Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow the home | of Mrs. Hull, formerly the home of General | Cunningham, which was designed by James Wyatt | Engraved by T. Milton 1787”; center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | A/N [handwritten] C343 | Paul Mellon | [typed] 3169”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.92
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
whip | house | dog (animal) | woman | landscape | architectural subject | costume | running | man | path | boy | country house | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Ireland | Wicklow | Wicklow | United Kingdom | Leinster
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)

Ascendancy: Irish Religion and Politics 1550-1800 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2000-07-17 - 2000-10-15)

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 16-17, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 9, 14, 49-50, 114, no 27, pl. 27, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)

John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 256, 302, no. 339, fig. 339, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)

William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 86, 110-11, 225, no. 7, fig. 20 (p. 110), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:317