Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Title:
The Great Fire of London
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.110
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
river | gesture | cathedral | people | church | flames | historical subject | fear | cradle | children | night | fire | bridge (built work) | costume | smoke | arch | boats | rowboats | clouds | moon
Associated Places:
England | St. Paul's Cathedral | Thames | Europe | Greater London | United Kingdom | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)The Image of London (Barbican Art Gallery, 1987-08-06 - 1987-10-18)Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp, 152, 153, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 42, ND466 G67 (YCBA)Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, pp. 167, 297, cat. no. 243, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Musee des Beaux Arts de Strasbourg, Loutherbourg ( Strasbourg, 1740 - Londres, 1812 ):, tourments et chime`res : livret de l'exposition , Musees de la vie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 2012, p. 9, fig. 21, V 1392 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 186, no. 375, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)