Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Title:
The Straw Yard
Date:
1810
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (19.1 x 29.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "J WRD 1810"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.101
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
cottage | fence | thatched roof | piglets | barn | pigs | farmyard | donkeys | sleeping | landscape | straw | genre subject | farm | man | horses (animals) | children | rooster
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
James Ward (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-05-21 - 2004-08-22)
Publications:
Oliver Beckett, The life and work of James Ward, R.A., 1769-1859, the forgotten genius , Book Guild, Lewes (England), 1995, p. 200, no. 274 or 275, NJ18 W21 B42 1995 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 234, 235, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 215, no. 229, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

C. Reginald Grundy, James Ward R.A., his life and works, with a catalogue of his engravings and pictures , Otto limited, London, 1909, no. 815, NJ18 W21 G7+ OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Edward John Nygren, James Ward, RA (1769-1859) : Papers and Patrons, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 75, 2013, pp. 293, 294, no. 208, Pl. XVIII, N12 W35 +A1Oversize (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, lot 356, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:438