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http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object
Human-Made Object
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watercolor
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drawing
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religious and mythological subject
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Drawing & Watercolor
Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus
Illustrations to the Illiad
Watermark: (Fragment: Horse and Rider)
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1975.4.884
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106787196
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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6 7/8 × 9 inches (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
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Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798, British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1496436
Gavin Hamilton
Hamilton Gavin, 1723–1798
Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
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British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
1723
1798
male
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Artist
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portrait painter
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antiquaries
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archaeologist
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dealer
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painter
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British
between 1760 and 1763
1760
1763
22
18th century
Pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
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laid paper
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58344150
brown ink
brown wash
gray wash
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
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exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
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Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
10155
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NJ18.H172344 A12 2011 (YCBA)
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2270
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publication event
Brendan Cassidy, ^The life & letters of Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), artist & art dealer in eighteenth-century Rome ^, Harvey Miller Publishers, London, 2011, v.1, p.70 fn. 149, NJ18.H172344 A12 2011 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Brendan Cassidy
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Cassidy Brendan
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editor
Harvey Miller Publishers
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Harvey Miller Publishers
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Publisher
2011
2011
2011
London
10155
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NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
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1541
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publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 42-43, no. 31, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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Forrester Gillian
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Author
Morna O'Neill
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O'Neill Morna
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Author
Kim Sloan
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Sloan Kim
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
2001
2001
2001
New Haven, CT
10155
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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YCBA
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Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
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Owner
1975-01-01
1975-01-01
1975-01-01
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Based in Rome from the late 1750s, the Scottish artists Gavin Hamilton enjoyed an international reputation as a history painter. Central to his reputation was the series of six monumental paintings of scenes from Homer's Iliad, painted over the course of about fifteen years from 1760 and engraved by Dominic Cunego. Although they were commissioned from different patrons, Hamilton thought of the series as a single work and conceived of the engravings as a set.\n\n
The first in the series to be painted, though the final scene in Hamilton's narrative sequence, was Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector, commissioned by Lord Compton and painted in the summer of 1760 (the painting has not survived). Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroculus, commissioned by James Grants of Grant in 1760 and painted in 1763 (collection of Earl of Seafield), came next. The pair of drawings mirrors the compositions of these first two paintings, although the role of the drawings in the genesis of the paintings and the subsequent Cunego prints is not clear. Within the series these two scenes - the furios gried of Achilles and the tragic sorrow of Andromache - are closely connected, providing the kernel of the narrative that Hamilton expanded into six scenes. In contrast to Rysbrack's IIiad illustration (cat. 30), Hamilton's compositions are more tightly focused on central figure groupings, enhancing both the clarity and the drama of the representations. Influenced by the paintings of the seventeenth century master Nicolas Poussin, Hamilton in these works announces the principles of neoclassicism in history painting.\n\n
Scott Wilcox\n\n
Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001, pg. 42 cat. no. 31
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Published catalog entry
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Scott Wilcox
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Author
2001-05
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palm tree
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curtain
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death
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religious and mythological subject
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mourning
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men
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women
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Achilles
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Achilles
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Trojan war
Brendan Cassidy, The life & letters of Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), artist & art dealer in eighteenth-century Rome, Harvey Miller Publishers, London, 2011, v.1, p.70 fn. 149, NJ18.H172344 A12 2011 (YCBA)
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NJ18.H172344 A12 2011 (YCBA)
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related to
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 42-43, no. 31, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
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related to
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Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Item
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10155
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:10155
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https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/10155
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art