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YCBA/lido-TMS-14180
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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architectural subject
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Drawing & Watercolor
Design for a Wall of the Chapel of Revealed Religion
Design for Revealed Religon for the redecoration of the King's Chapel, Windsor Castle…
Inscribed in artist's hand in black ink ower left: "scale in feet"
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.4356
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110010469
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
width
cm
47.0
height
cm
29.2
Sheet
15 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (38.7 x 56.5 cm)
height
cm
38.7
width
cm
56.5
Mount
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Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50003451
http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806823
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313498
http://viaf.org/viaf/76585232
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29076
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500026989
http://www.idref.fr/028676416/id
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Benjamin West
Benjamin West R. A.
Benjamin West P. R. A.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
West Benjamin, 1738–1820
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
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American, active in Britain (from 1763)
1738
1820
male
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Artist
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draftsman (artist)
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history painter
President of the Royal Academy of Art, London (1792-1805, 1806-1820)
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American
ca. 1780
1775
1785
22
18th century
Watercolor with pen in gray and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
300014184
laid paper
300015045
watercolor
300022452
pen
black ink
gray ink
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
300054766
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
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
300025633
Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
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
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
594
300054766
exhibition
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
300025633
Curator
1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17
1990-12-05
1991-02-17
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
Revealed Religion - Benjamin West's Commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey (San Antonio Museum of Art, 1983-09-18 - 1983-11-13)
335
300054766
exhibition
Revealed Religion - Benjamin West's Commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey
Yale Center for British Art
San Antonio Museum of Art
ycba_actor_7146
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500450258
San Antonio Museum of Art
0
0
300311675
Borrower
1983-09-18 - 1983-11-13
1983-09-18
1983-11-13
San Antonio Museum of Art
ycba_actor_7146
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500450258
San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio
1129521
San Antonio
Benjamin West and his American Students (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1981-01-30 - 1981-04-19)
298
300054766
exhibition
Benjamin West and his American Students
Yale Center for British Art
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
ycba_actor_7133
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
0
0
1981-01-30 - 1981-04-19
1981-01-30
1981-04-19
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
ycba_actor_7133
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
7014406
Philadelphia
Benjamin West and his American Students (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1980-10-06 - 1981-01-05)
298
300054766
exhibition
Benjamin West and his American Students
Yale Center for British Art
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
ycba_actor_1838
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500239941
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Claire Kelly
Molly Grimsley
Alan Fern
0
0
300311675
Borrower
1980-10-06 - 1981-01-05
1980-10-06
1981-01-05
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
ycba_actor_1838
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500239941
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Washington
7013962
Washington
14180
173460
NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)
4003948
3577
300054686
publication event
Robert C. Alberts, ^Benjamin West : A Biography^, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, pp. 158-60, p. 2 in unnumered plate section between pp. 270 and 271, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Robert C. Alberts
ycba_actor_12373
Alberts Robert C.
300025492
Author
Houghton Mifflin Company
ycba_actor_10957
Houghton Mifflin Company
300025574
Publisher
1978
1978
1978
Boston
14180
Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
5155
300054686
publication event
^Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 14 March 1967^, Christie's, March 14, 1967, p. 11, lot 43, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
March 14, 1967
1967
1967
14180
3292520
N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)
54235568
583
300054686
publication event
Linda Colley, ^Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 37-38, no. 86, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Linda Colley
ycba_actor_8665
Colley Linda
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1990
1990
1990
New Haven
14180
3118679
N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)
702319719
582
300054686
publication event
Linda Colley, ^Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 34, no.85, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Linda Colley
ycba_actor_8665
Colley Linda
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1990
1990
1990
New Haven
14180
9710866
NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)
1099984621
1801
300054686
publication event
Terry Friedman, ^The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain^, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 122-23, fig. 96, NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Terry Friedman
ycba_actor_9909
Friedman Terry
300025492
Author
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ycba_actor_5853
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109777
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500301928
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7152454
https://viaf.org/viaf/131545782
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
300025574
Publisher
2011
2011
2011
New Haven
14180
12431624
NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)
880861103
3488
300054686
publication event
Andrew Hemingway, ^Transatlantic Romanticism : British and American art and literature, 1790/1860^, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst and Boston, 2015, pp. 107, 109 and color plate, color pl. 7, NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Andrew Hemingway
ycba_actor_8407
Hemingway Andrew
300025526
editor
Alan Wallach
ycba_actor_12216
Wallach Alan
300025526
editor
University of Massachusetts Press
ycba_actor_12217
University of Massachusetts Press
300025574
Publisher
2015
2015
2015
Amherst and Boston
14180
4582666
N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
43427170
3078
300054686
publication event
Elizabeth Jacklin, ^A Rubensian drawing for a lost painting, Benjamin West's study for Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea ^, British Art Journal, Vol. 14, Autumn, 2013, pp. 40-43, pls. . 2 and 3, N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Elizabeth Jacklin
ycba_actor_11860
Jacklin Elizabeth
300025492
Author
Autumn, 2013
2013
2013
14180
3090441
NJ18 W52 +K73 Oversize (YCBA)
2526079
2658
300054686
publication event
Ruth S. Kraemer, ^Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West^, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1975, p. 18, fig. 13, NJ18 W52 +K73 Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Ruth S. Kraemer
ycba_actor_11473
Kraemer Ruth S.
300025492
Author
Pierpont Morgan Library
ycba_actor_7169
Pierpont Morgan Library
300025574
Publisher
1975
1975
1975
New York
14180
581397
NJ18 .W52 P74 (YCBA)
123159753
5153
300054686
publication event
Nancy L. Pressly, ^Revealed religion : Benjamin West's commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey^, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 1983, p. 38, no. 2, NJ18 .W52 P74 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Nancy L. Pressly
ycba_actor_13689
Pressly Nancy L.
300025492
Author
San Antonio Museum of Art
ycba_actor_7146
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500450258
San Antonio Museum of Art
300025574
Publisher
1983
1983
1983
San Antonio
14180
3072768
HN385 .S676 1990 (YCBA)
20635525
5154
300054686
publication event
David Spadafora, ^The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990, p. 89, HN385 .S676 1990 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
David Spadafora
ycba_actor_16586
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88246309
Spadafora David
300025492
Author
Yale University Press
ycba_actor_7029
Yale University Press
300025574
Publisher
1990
1990
1990
New Haven
14180
583498
NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)
12665136
754
300054686
publication event
Helmut von Erffa, ^The Paintings of Benjamin West^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 386-7, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Helmut von Erffa
ycba_actor_8925
von Erffa Helmut
300025492
Author
Allen Staley
ycba_actor_8753
Staley Allen
300025492
Author
Yale University Press
ycba_actor_7029
Yale University Press
300025574
Publisher
1986
1986
1986
New Haven
14180
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
300054686
publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 178, no. 151, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
ycba_actor_1252
Wilcox Scott
300025492
Author
Gillian Forrester, British
ycba_actor_2052
Forrester Gillian
300025492
Author
Morna O'Neill
ycba_actor_9449
O'Neill Morna
300025492
Author
Kim Sloan
ycba_actor_9431
Sloan Kim
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2001
2001
2001
New Haven, CT
14180
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300203630
Owner
1977
1977
1977
300138913
gift
Benjamin West, the American-born history painter and future President of the Royal Academy, first attracted the attention of King George III with his 1768 canvas Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanics (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven). After a decade of steady patronage, in 1780 the king commissioned that West called "the great work of my life," The Chapel of Revealed Religion for Windsor Castle. Numerous questions still remain about the program and the intended location of this important and sadly incomplete project which the king stopped funding for in 1801 for reasons that remain unclear. West continued working at his own expense until 1804.
The chapel's decorative scheme, approved by Anglican theologians, was to depict revelatory moments from the Old and the New Testaments: Patriarchal, Mosaical, and Gospel. This drawing depicts West's scheme for the north wall of the chapel, one of the earliest planned. The king's architect Sir William Chambers (see cats. 117-18) drew in the architectural background, and West added his plans for Gospel scenes in the large panels, centered around the Ascension of Christ. He places scenes from the Old Testament above, which figures from the Old Testament, such as King David with his lyre, rest atop the pilasters. Below them, caryatids display shields depicting emblems of Christianity. Highly finished designs such as this one functioned as working drawings that West could then use to present his ideas to the king. West also executed oil studies for the chapel, and he exhibited completed canvases at the Royal Academy. The Ascension based on the central scene in the drawing, wss shown there in 1781, labeled "For his Majesty's Chapel at Windsor." --- ---
Morna O'Neill --- ---
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. 178 cat. no. 151
14180
300111999
Published catalog entry
ycba_actor_9449
Morna O'Neill
300025492
Author
2001-05
ycba_term_2036212
architectural subject
300188975
ycba_term_151400
figures
300034104
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plans
300102051
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design
300025783
ycba_term_130123
religious
300055866
ycba_term_38847
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Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, pp. 158-60, p. 2 in unnumered plate section between pp. 270 and 271, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)
173460
NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)
4003948
3577
related to
Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English drawings and watercolours : 14 March 1967, Christie's, March 14, 1967, p. 11, lot 43, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
5155
related to
Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 37-38, no. 86, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)
3292520
N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)
54235568
583
related to
Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 34, no.85, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)
3118679
N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)
702319719
582
related to
Terry Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 122-23, fig. 96, NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)
9710866
NA5466 F76 2011 + Oversize (YCBA)
1099984621
1801
related to
Andrew Hemingway, Transatlantic Romanticism : British and American art and literature, 1790/1860, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst and Boston, 2015, pp. 107, 109 and color plate, color pl. 7, NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)
12431624
NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)
880861103
3488
related to
Elizabeth Jacklin, A Rubensian drawing for a lost painting, Benjamin West's study for Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea, British Art Journal, Vol. 14, Autumn, 2013, pp. 40-43, pls. . 2 and 3, N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
4582666
N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
43427170
3078
related to
Ruth S. Kraemer, Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1975, p. 18, fig. 13, NJ18 W52 +K73 Oversize (YCBA)
3090441
NJ18 W52 +K73 Oversize (YCBA)
2526079
2658
related to
Nancy L. Pressly, Revealed religion : Benjamin West's commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 1983, p. 38, no. 2, NJ18 .W52 P74 (YCBA)
581397
NJ18 .W52 P74 (YCBA)
123159753
5153
related to
David Spadafora, The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990, p. 89, HN385 .S676 1990 (YCBA)
3072768
HN385 .S676 1990 (YCBA)
20635525
5154
related to
Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 386-7, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)
583498
NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)
12665136
754
related to
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 178, no. 151, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
related to
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
14180
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14180
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:14180
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/14180
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/14180
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art