Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

William Aikman, 1682–1731, British

Title:

An Unfinished Study of the Head of James Thomson

Date:

ca. 1725

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

19 7/16 x 15 5/16 inches (49.4 x 38.9 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1976.7.178

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

man | portrait | costume | study (visual work) | unfinished

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. 14-15, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Our Sale Room Correspondent, Hagley Hall treasures, The Times (London), 30 December 1925, p. 12, Available online via Gale Primary Sources : The Times Digital Archive

Sandro Jung, Thomson, Macpherson, Ramsay, and the making and marketing of illustrated Scottish literary editions in the 1790s, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 109, 2015, p. 20, Available online via JSTOR

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:385