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YCBA/lido-TMS-6797
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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genre subject
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figure study
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Drawing & Watercolor
Howard Visiting a Prison
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "1132"
Circular collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541); oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4542)
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1979.12.667
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28796696
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
12 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches (31.8 x 51.1 cm)
width
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George Romney, 1734–1802, British
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50048289
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371280
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http://www.idref.fr/028906497/id
George Romney
Romney George, 1734–1802
George Romney, 1734–1802
George Romney, 1734–1802
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British
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1802
male
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painter
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British
between 1790 and 1794
1790
1794
22
18th century
Black and gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
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laid paper
300011098
graphite
black ink
black wash
gray wash
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30)
708
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/636
300054766
exhibition
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
British Art Center
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
1977
0
300311675
Borrower
2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30
2010-02-04
2010-05-30
Yale Center for British Art
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Art in Focus is an academic initiative for members of the Yale Center for British Art Student Guide Program, through which students are introduced to every aspect of exhibition practice. Students intensify their engagement with the Center’s collections, strengthen their research skills, and test writing in new formats. Student curators select objects for exhibition, write text panels and object labels, and make decisions about installation. — —
Art in Focus: John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley was the third exhibition of the Art in Focus initiative. It examined George Romney’s complex group portrait of 1795, depicting John Flaxman sculpting a monumental bust of the poet William Hayley, with assistance from Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Flaxman’s apprentice and Hayley’s son; the painting also includes a self-portrait of Romney at the edge of the canvas. The exhibition investigated the painting from multiple perspectives, using it as a jumping-off point for exploring the four artists’ relationships to their media and to each other. — —
The exhibition featured a medallion by Thomas Alphonso—one of only two surviving works by the prodigy—and William Hayley’s published life of his son, both gifts to the Center by Professor Charles Ryskamp, Director Emeritus of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Frick Collection. Through this group of objects, as well as letters, prints, and drawings, the exhibition addressed questions of the professional and personal relationships among the sitters, the nature of male friendship in the period, and the complex history of the portrait’s ownership. Art in Focus: John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley also included important new technical information about the group portrait gathered during recent analysis under the oversight of Mark Aronson, the Center’s Chief Conservator of Paintings. — —
Credits — —
Student Guide curators of this exhibition were Page Benkowski (ES ’09), Nicole Espy (PC ’09), Samo Gale (MC ’10), Andrew Lee (BR ’09), Yinshi Lerman-Tan (MC ’11), Minghao Liu (JE ’09), Nick Robbins (BC ’10), and Margaret Tung (CC ’10). They worked under the guidance of Professor Ryskamp, as well as members of the Center’s staff, including Matthew Hargraves, Assistant Curator for Collections Research; Linda Friedlaender, Curator of Education; and Jennifer Kowitt, Postgraduate Research Associate in the Education department.
Yale Center for British Art
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
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
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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
6797
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3506
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publication event
Smith College Museum of Art, ^The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass.^, Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no. 82, NJ18 R65 S46
Yale Center for British Art
Smith College Museum of Art
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https://viaf.org/viaf/134894422
Smith College Museum of Art
300025492
Author
1962
1962
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Northampton, MA
6797
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NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
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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. 50, cat. no 38, 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
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O'Neill Morna
300025492
Author
Kim Sloan
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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
6797
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300203630
Owner
1979-01-01
1979-01-01
1979-01-01
300417644
transfer
These drawings by Romney and Dighton [B1979.12.667 and B1986.29.373] represent two approaches to contemporary history: one looking to the generalizing and universalizing of Grand Manner history painting, the other arising from the world of caricature. ---
From the 1770s the philanthropist John Howard campaigned for the reform of prison conditions first in England and Wales and later in Europe. He toured prisons throughout the Continent, finally dying in Russia in 1790 from a fever contracted during one of his prison visits. Howard had declined to be painted by Romney in 1785; but after Howard's death, Romney set to work on what he hoped would be a series of paintings celebrating Howard's heroic efforts in alleviating human misery. In the early 1790s Romney produced a series of powerful drawings of nightmarish prison scenes in which Howard's experiences are transmuted into universal images of anguish and despair. Although Romney was one of the most fashionable society portrait painters of eighteenth-century England, success in the area of art he most valued - history painting - eluded him. As with so many of his other ambitious plans for history paintings, his projected paintings of Howard visiting prisons never progressed beyond these drawings.---
On August 2, 1786, a mentally disturbed woman named Margaret Nicholson tried to stab George III; the monarch, escaping unharmed, pardoned his assailant, who was confined to Bethlehem Hospital. Dighton's drawing is a piece of visual reportage, attempting to convey the actual appearance of the attempted assassination. For Dighton, the son of a printseller and himself a caricaturist and printseller, topicality and timeliness were of the essence. The print after the drawing was published just three days after the assault. Although there is nothing of caricature in his description of the attack on the king, neither is there any attempt to render the scene heroic or timeless. --- ---
Scott Wilcox --- ---
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 50, cat. no. 38, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
6797
300111999
Published catalog entry
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Scott Wilcox
300025492
Author
2001-05
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ycba_term_31643
correctional institution
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ycba_term_7001
men
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ycba_term_13028
cloth
300025933
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prisoners
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ycba_term_27168
nudes
300139140
ycba_term_2036211
genre subject
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woman
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figure study
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prison
Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no. 82, NJ18 R65 S46
422
NJ18 R65 S46
37882
3506
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. 50, cat. no 38, 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, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
6797
300133025
Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6797
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:6797
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/6797
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/6797
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art