Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.149
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
opera glasses | audience | costume | theater | hats | spectators | play
Associated Places:
England | Covent Garden | Drury Lane | Europe | United Kingdom | London
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)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)
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, pp. 272-73, no. 64, pl. 64, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, p. 61, no. 242, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Ann Bermingham, The consumption of culture, 1600-1800, Image, object, text , Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), New York, 1995, p. 348, DA485 C667 1995 (YCBA)Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 19, no. 118, DA485 F25 1990 (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. 6, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. xix, 6-7, no. 5, pl. IV, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 106-8, no. 88, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)