Watercolor, with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 10 7/16 inches (35.6 x 26.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in brown ink, lower center: "Thomas Boys | 1830"; verso: inscribed in faded/erased graphite, upper center; [unreadable writing, very faded]
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1460
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
people | bridge (built work) | buildings | barrels (containers) | laborers | cityscapes | water | architectural subject | workers | doors | river | chimneys (architectural elements) | sky | wheels | steps | windows | trees
Associated Places:
Institut de France | Paris | Seine | France | Île-de-France | Pont des Arts
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)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 50, pl. XII, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)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. 294, no. 110, pl. 110, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Stephen Duffy, The discovery of Paris, watercolours by early nineteenth-century British artists , The Wallace Collection, London, London, 2013, p. 73, ND1928 D84 2013 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 105, no. 196, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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. 110, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 50, Pl. XII, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)