Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828, British
Title:: Christening of the Heir
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.45
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: bowl | sisters | girls | women | blessing | interior | men | windows | family | mother | joy | father | book | infant | wife | table | husband | carpet | children | curtains | costume | chairs | stool | religious and mythological subject | genre subject | conversation piece | heir | priest | ceremony | christening
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. 22-23, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:558