Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
The Opera Singers
Date:
between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 11/16 inches (14 x 11.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.917
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | women | bracelet (jewelry) | pearls | necklace | opera (discipline) | feathers | singing | sheet music
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)

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:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16, 19, V 1699 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 47], V 1699:1 (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 282-3, fig. 17, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 124, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) 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. 47, 98, no. 71, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 25, no. 34, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)

The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 282-3, fig. 17, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5666