Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, on mount, lower left: "Thomas Rowlandson. (underlined) - Old Vauxhall Gardens (underlined) - The earliest version of the subject. | Mrs. Weischel, mother of Mrs. Billington, singing in the orchestra. Portraits of the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Robinson and her husband, | Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Duncannon, Captain Topham, Admiral Paisley, James Perry, Parson Bate Dudley, Mrs. Hartley and others. | In a supper-box, Dr. Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, and Oliver Goldsmith. ----"; in black ink, on mount, lower right: "Ce dessin provient de la collection de Sir William Aug. Fraser, Bart M.A. | I la figure en 1899 a I'exposition des oeuvres des 'English humourists in Art' | No. 32 du catalogue. - Cette exposition eut lieu dans les galeries du | 'Royal Institue of Painters in Water-colours.'---"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1844
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
arch | balcony | costume | spectators | musicians | audience | genre subject | musical instruments | orchestra | music | performance | pleasure garden | entertainment | trees | men | concert | park (grounds) | rotunda (interior space) | gardens | women | leisure | satire | organ
Associated Places:
Lambeth | Southwark | England | Europe | Vauxhall Gardens | United Kingdom | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Block Museum of Art, 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-13)Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2011-04-08 - 2011-06-12)Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)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)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)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. 6-7, 12, 3, V 1699 (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 37], V 1699:1 (YCBA)John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 53, no. 71, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, pp. 13-14, no. 12, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 280-1, fig. 8, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : The collection of ancient and modern pictures and drawings of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bart. : 3 December 1900, Christie's, December 3, 1900, p. 6, lot 47, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Jonathan Conlin, The pleasure garden , from Vauxhall to Coney Island, , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013, p. 113, fig. 4.4, SB451.36.G7 P54 2013 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [Project Muse]Teri J Edelstein, Vauxhall Gardens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1983, pp. 46, 50, no. 92, pl. 4, SB446 .G72 L64 (YCBA)Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 30, no. 213, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)Bernard Falk, Thomas Rowlandson : His life and art, New York, 1952, pp. 64-5, 78, NJ18 .R79 F35 1952 Oversize (YCBA)Martin Hardie, Water-colour painting in Britain, B.T. Batsford, London, 1967, vol. 1, pp. 211-12, ND1928 .H37 1967 (LC)+ Oversize YCBAJohn T. Hayes, The art of Thomas Rowlandson, Art Services International, Alexandria, Va., 1990, pp. 66-9, no. 20, NJ18 .R79 H375 1990 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp. 58-59, no. 1, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + 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. 54, 113, no. 110, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 4-6, no. 4, pl. I, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 280-1, fig. 8, 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, pp. 106-7, no. 87, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)