Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
The Exhibition Stare-Case, Somerset House
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 11 11/16 inches (44.5 x 29.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2893
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
hats | nude in art | genre subject | cane | men | interior | Feathers | women | dog (animal) | staircase | stockings | sculpture
Associated Places:
Greater London | City of Westminster | Somerset House | Europe | England | United Kingdom | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, 2018-06-11 - 2018-08-19)

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)

James Gillray and the Art of Caricature (Tate Britain, 2001-07-07 - 2001-09-02)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)
Publications:
Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Guide through the Royal Academy, Thomas Cadell the younger, London, 1781, p. 15, Available online in Orbis

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. 274, no. 68, pl. 68, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Michael Glover, Scenes from Afar, The Times (London), Saturday, September 22, 2007, p. 28, Available Online : Times Digital Arcive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML)

Mark Hallett, The Great Spectacle: 250 years of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, [London], p. 24, cat. 4, N5054 .H35 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

William Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste , London, 1753, p. 66, N70 .H7

Samuel Johnson, Letters of Samuel Johnson, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992-1994, p. 418 (v. 4), PR3533 A4 1992

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 68, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Robin Simon, Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections, New Haven, p. 35, fig. 27, N1100 A869 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Sacheverell Sitwell, Narrative pictures, a survey of English genre and its painters , B.T. Batsford, London, 1937, p. 15, ND466 S5 (YCBA)

Giles Waterfield, Mr. Mellon, RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, No. 96, Autumn 2007, p. 71, V 1905 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5832