Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832, British
Title:
John Quick and John Fawcett in Thomas Moreton's "The Way to Get Married"
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (73 x 65.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed various trompe l'oeil writing
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.240
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hat | fireplace | men | chair | boxes (containers) | theater | eyeglasses | gold | books | desk | blue | room | portrait | comedy | boxes
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 248-249, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 20, no. 130, DA485 F25 1990 (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. 43, 93, no. 58, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:748