Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
Newbury Market Place, Berkshire
Date:
between 1815 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown, red-brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 15 7/8 inches (25.4 x 40.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, lower left: "Newbury Berkshire"(inscription has been cut off midway down, but still legible)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.334
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
baskets | weathervanes | dogs (animals) | chimneys (architectural elements) | men | crowd | children | women | buildings | steps | square (open space) | windows | balcony | criminal | wagons | dishes | cityscape | jugs | horses (animals) | market (event)
Associated Places:
Newbury | England | United Kingdom | Berkshire | Europe
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)

British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)

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)
Publications:
Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp.34,134-35, no. 48, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6439