Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British

Title:

The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Date:

1783

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "FWheatley pinx | 1783"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.122

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

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)

Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)

' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)

Publications:

Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 27, V 0909 (YCBA)

John Barrell, Painting and the politics of culture : new essays on British art, 1700-1850, Claredon Press, Oxford, p. 183, fig. 6.7, N6766 P35 1992

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 244-245, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Jane Fenlon, Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period : New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620 - 1820, Newbridge, Country Kildare, Ireland, 2016, p. 15, fig. 01.06, N6787 I75 2016 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 72, ND466 G67 (YCBA)

John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Ferrara Arte, , 1998, p. 234, fig. 85, NJ18 G16 H485 1998 + (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 216, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 77, 78, 222-23, 235, no. 135, fig. 1 (p.78), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (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. 140 (v.1), no. 267, pl. 205, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

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. 61 (v.1), no. 222, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)

W. Roberts, F. Wheatley, R.A., His life and works , Otto limited, London, 1910, p. 47, pl. 47, NJ18 W56 +R63 (YCBA)

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout No. 14, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)

Denys Sutton, Some English Landscapes in Mr. Mellon's Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns.# 14, April 1963, pp. 278, 280, pl. V, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:459