Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Title:: The Practical Joke
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.443
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: furniture | hat | games | boy | parquetry | card table | stairs | children | stockings | playing cards | breeches | genre subject | table | conversation piece | sleeping
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 34-35, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:927