Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, BritishFormerly William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Title:
The Angel of Mercy
Date:
ca. 1746
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 1/2 x 19 inches (59.7 x 48.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.362
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
shadows | robe | baby | children | angels | wings | white (color) | woman | cave | religious and mythological subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Basic Instincts (The Foundling Museum, 2017-09-29 - 2018-01-07)Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30)William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30)
Publications:
Naomi Clifford, Basic Instincts, The art of Joseph Highmore at the Foundling Museum, https://www.naomiclifford.com/basic-instincts-the-art-of-joseph-highmore-at-the-foundling-museum/ , Love, Life and Death in the Georgian Era, January 11, 2018, Available OnlineMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 120-121, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 416, 423, fig. 25.01, 25.08, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, p. 112, fig. 94, NJ18.H4888 R53 2017 (YCBA)Kristen Tambling, The Foundling Museum brings Joseph Highmore out of the shadows, , Apollo, October 10, 2017, https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-foundling-museum-brings-joseph-highmore-out-of-the-shadows/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20171014_Weekly_Round_Up_41The Mere relation of the sufferings of others, Highmore, history painting and the Foundling Hospital , Art History, vol. 35, no. 3, June 2012, pp. 545-553, figs. 15, 17, N1 A75 v. 35:3 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS)