Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Title:
Classical Landscape
Date:
1754
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 × 46 1/2 inches (88.9 × 118.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint (on urn), lower left: "J. WOOTON | 1754"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.84
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
cattle | men | artist | architecture | architectural subject | landscape | ruins | costume | urn | boats | mountains | women | columns (architectural elements) | cows | river
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
In Light of Claude Lorraine (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1983-03-12 - 1983-05-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 260-261, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Arline Meyer, The Landscape Paintings of John Wootton (1682-1764), painter of the Augustan age , , 1982, p. 334, fig. 123, NJ18 W86 M492 1982A

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 85 (v.1), no. 304, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)

Marcel Roethlisberger, Im Licht von Claude Lorrain : Landschaftmalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Hirmer, Munich, 1983, p. 202, no. 130, NJ18 .G28 R65+ Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:426