Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Title:
A Caricature Group
Date:
ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 x 42 inches (83.8 x 106.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.467
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
oysters | drinking glasses | painting (visual work) | wine glass | wine | dinner | hat | gathering | caricature | satire | men | meal | food | satirical | goblet | drinking | table | silverware | party
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Kimbell Art Museum, 2017-08-27 - 2017-12-31)

Hanover's Rulers on the British Throne 1714 - 1837 (Niedersachsische Landesmuseum, 2014-05-01 - 2014-10-31)

No More Fog at the Channel - Holbein to Hockney - 500 Years of British Art (Fundación Juan March, 2012-10-05 - 2013-01-20)

British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Als die Royals aus Hannover kamen, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, p. 57, cat. 1, N8219.K5 A47 2014 (LC) Oversize

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 164-165, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, pp. 11, 26, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)

Richard T. Godfrey, English caricature, 1620 to the present : caricaturists and satirists, their art, their purpose and influence, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1984, pp. 73-4, no. 79, pl. IV, NC1477 .G63 E54

Frederick Ilchman, Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, MFA Publications, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 191, fig. 96, N6756 .C37 2017 (LC) (YCBA)

Katherine McHale, Adam and the Academicians: The Contributions of Leading Italian Artists, Georgian Group Journal, v. 25, The Group, London, p. 172, fig. 4, NA966 G46 (LC) (YCBA)

Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp. 102,103, fig. 10, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (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. 56, 116, no. 116, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 284, fig. 214, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Charles Saumarez Smith, The company of artists, the origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London , Modern Art Press, London, 2012, pp. 38-39, 41, pl. 12, N1100 .S55 2012 (YCBA)

Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 619, TLS Historical Archive

Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2012, pp. 146, 322, no. 42, N6761 .T74 2012 Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:951