Graphite, pen and black ink and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 6 1/8 inches (19.1 × 15.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand bottom right in pen and brown ink: "J A Atkinson"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.865
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | figure study | door | student | book | hat | boy | deer | reading | figures (representations)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Berkeley Art Museum, 1995-08-23 - 1995-11-19)The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1995-12-10 - 1996-02-04)The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Joslyn Art Museum, 1996-03-09 - 1996-05-05)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
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. 41, 89, no. 47, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 620, TLS Historical ArchiveJames Christen Steward, The New Child : British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830, , University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 1995, pp. 146-7, fig. 53, N6766 S78 1995 OVERSIZE (YCBA)