Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
A Gibbet
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 13/16 inches (36 x 27.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.137
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dead | men | horses (animals) | genre subject | gibbet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13)
Publications:
Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians, life and art in London's golden age , Allen Lane, London, 2013, p. 329, fig. 153, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (YCBA)

Robert Hoozee, British vision : observation and imagination in British art, 1750-1950, , Mercatorfonds Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels , Ghent, 2007, p. 118, no. 50, fig. 118, N6767 B78 2007 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, p. 39, fig.18, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5617