The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated lower left: "Rowlandson - 1790"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.141
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sitting | sisters | man | aristocracy | music | women | guitar | dresses, evening | couch | portrait | sheet music
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Collection, 1990-02-10 - 1990-04-08)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Art Museum, 1990-04-21 - 1990-06-03)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 273, no. 65, pl. 65, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 282-3, fig. 18, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, pp.138, 139, no. 75, pl. 75, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The art of Thomas Rowlandson, Art Services International, Alexandria, Va., 1990, pp. 122-3, no. 47, NJ18 .R79 H375 1990 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 134, no. 345, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 65, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 45, 96, no. 66, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Aileen Ribeiro, A Visual History of Costume : The Eighteenth Century, B.T. Batsford, London; New York, 1983, p. 125, no. 138, GT733 .V57 1983 4 (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 17-8, no. 23, pl. XVII, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 282-3, fig. 18, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 22, no. 7, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Posthumous memoirs of his own time, Richard Bentley, London, p. 11 (v.1), , DA506 W9 A33 1836 (YCBA Rare) (SML)