Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Matthias Read, 1669–1747, British
Title:
Whitehaven, Cumbria, Showing Flatt Hall
Date:
between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 72 inches (101.6 x 182.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.515
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
dock | farmland | men | cityscape | hills | church | water | horses (animals) | view | port | architecture | horses (animals) | livestock | architectural subject | agriculture | sea | farming | city | roads | harbor | fields (agricultural land) | town | landscape | cows | animals
Associated Places:
England | Cumbria | Whitehaven | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Nicholas Alfrey, Mapping the landscape, essays on art and cartography , Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham [England], 1990, p. 12, fig. 5, GA105 M27 1990 (YCBA) +

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 32-22, 106, no. 12, pl. 12, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)

Terry Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 3-5, figs. 3a, 3b. 3c, NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)

John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 60, 99, 100 n. 14, 152, no. 167, fig. 167, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:999