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The Geographers
Verso: Seated Man Reading a Book
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite center right: "John Brown Romae"; in graphite upper right: "6[...]"
Signed in graphite, center right: "John Brown Romae"; signed on verso in graphite, center right: "J Brown del"; not dated
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.4152
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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John Brown, 1749–1787, British
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
248
300054766
exhibition
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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YCBA
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
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2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29
2007-04-18
2007-07-29
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
248
300054766
exhibition
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy
Yale Center for British Art
Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts
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Royal Academy of Arts
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
252
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/656
300054766
exhibition
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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BAC
YCBA
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300025633
Curator
2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29
2007-04-18
2007-07-29
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Yale Center for British Art and the centennial of the birth of its founder Paul Mellon (Yale College Class of 1929), the Center mounted a major exhibition showcasing Mr. Mellon’s extraordinary collection of paintings, watercolors, rare books, and manuscripts. Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art was displayed across all three floors of the Center’s public exhibition galleries. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: April 18–July 29, 2007 — —
Royal Academy of Arts, London: October 20, 2007–January 27, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Paul Mellon’s Legacy was curated by Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London; John Baskett, friend and art advisor to Paul Mellon; and MaryAnne Stevens, Acting Secretary and Senior Curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the curators of the Yale Center for British Art. At the Center, Paul Mellon’s Legacy was supported by Bank of New York Mellon and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan, Yale LL.B. 1968. — —
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
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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
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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
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994-02-06 - 1994-04-03)
480
300054766
exhibition
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings
Yale Center for British Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts
William M. Griswold
0
0
300311675
Borrower
63
Organizer
1994-02-06 - 1994-04-03
1994-02-06
1994-04-03
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis
7014080
Minneapolis
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993-07-22 - 1993-09-19)
480
300054766
exhibition
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings
Yale Center for British Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA
0
0
300311675
Borrower
1993-07-22 - 1993-09-19
1993-07-22
1993-09-19
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles
7023900
Los Angeles
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1993-10-30 - 1994-01-02)
480
300054766
exhibition
Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings
Yale Center for British Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
0
0
300311675
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1993-10-30 - 1994-01-02
1993-10-30
1994-01-02
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
7014406
Philadelphia
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
582
300054766
exhibition
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
YCBA
BAC
British Art Center
1977
0
63
Organizer
1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11
1979-09-12
1979-11-11
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
7681
5242696
NC228 B37+ (YCBA)
370371
1645
300054686
publication event
John Baskett, ^English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon ^, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 46, no. 59, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
John Baskett
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Baskett John
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Author
Dudley Snelgrove, 1906–1992, British
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Snelgrove Dudley
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The Morgan Library & Museum
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The Morgan Library & Museum
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1972
1972
1972
New York
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300054686
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John Baskett, ^Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 268, no. 56, pl. 56, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
John Baskett
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Baskett John
300025492
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Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
New Haven, CT
7681
13296582
61668507
Art Sales Catalogues Online
5071
300054686
publication event
^Christie's sale catalogue : Remaining part of the valuable collection of modern drawings, a few paintings. . . the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence : 17 June 1830^, Christie's, June 17, 1830, p. 8, lot 105, Art Sales Catalogues Online
Yale Center for British Art
June 17, 1830
1830
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publication event
Edouard Kopp, ^Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment^, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 78, 80, 311, Fig. 2, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Edouard Kopp
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Kopp Edouard
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editor
Elizabeth M. Rudy
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Rudy Elizabeth M.
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editor
Kristel Smentek
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Smentek Kristel
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Harvard Art Museums
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Harvard Art Museums
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2022
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Cambridge, MA
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^Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 56, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2007
2007
2007
New Haven, CT
7681
207237
N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)
05460420
4816
300054686
publication event
Nancy L. Pressly, ^The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 60, 62, no. 61, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Nancy L. Pressly
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Pressly Nancy L.
300025492
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Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
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1979
1979
1979
New Haven
7681
13296582
61668507
Art Sales Catalogues Online
5070
300054686
publication event
^T. Philipe sale catalogue : A catalogue of the rich & extensive collection of original drawings, by the great masters of all the schools, particularly the Italian . . . : 6 June 1814^, T. Philipe, July 6, 1814, p. 140, lot 1621, Art Sales Catalogues Online
Yale Center for British Art
July 6, 1814
1814
1814
7681
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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. 76, no. 58, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
300025492
Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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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
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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The subject of this enigmatic and atmospheric drawing has never been identified; it was untitled by the artist, and “The Geographers” is a later appellation. The composition is indeed dominated by the shadow of the globe looming menacingly over the foreground, but the volume over which the young men pore so intently is depicted as a tabula rasa rather than a map or travel book, and the spaces being charted are more likely those of the dark recesses of the imagination than actual geographical sites. Originally a sheet in one of Brown’s Roman sketchbooks, the drawing suggests something of the intense intellectual climate he experienced there and reflects the preoccupation with supernatural and uncanny themes explored by Henry Fuseli and his circle. ---
The drawing also demonstrates Brown’s fascination with physiognomy, a theoretical system dating back to the Renaissance and based on the premise that facial expressions were an index to human personality. Brown may have become interested in the subject through his association with Fuseli, who made several drawings for Johann Kasper Lavater’s influential treatise “Essays on Physiognomy, Calculated to Extend the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind”. The young man seated nearest the viewer in Brown's drawing has a classical profile—in physiognomonic terms, indicative of nobility of character— whereas the hooked noses and scowling expressions of the standing men hint at their villainous nature. Brown, who made numerous drawings of heads, was described by the amateur artist and connoisseur William Young Ottley as having “a peculiar talent in delineating the human physiognomy which he prosecuted with utmost diligence and perseverance, frequently following a remarkable character day after day until he completely succeeded in obtaining his resemblance and character” (Ottley, 1814, lot 1621). ---
“The Geographers” has a distinguished provenance; it belonged to Ottley, who studied briefly with Brown and purchased the contents of the artist’s studio after his death, and was subsequently owned by Sir Thomas Lawrence. --- ---
Gillian Forrester --- ---
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. 76 cat. no. 58
7681
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2001
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John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 46, no. 59, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)
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related to
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 268, no. 56, pl. 56, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
7838392
N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
74916141
48
related to
Christie's sale catalogue : Remaining part of the valuable collection of modern drawings, a few paintings. . . the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence : 17 June 1830, Christie's, June 17, 1830, p. 8, lot 105, Art Sales Catalogues Online
13296582
61668507
Art Sales Catalogues Online
5071
related to
Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 78, 80, 311, Fig. 2, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 56, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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701808157
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related to
Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 60, 62, no. 61, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)
207237
N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)
05460420
4816
related to
T. Philipe sale catalogue : A catalogue of the rich & extensive collection of original drawings, by the great masters of all the schools, particularly the Italian . . . : 6 June 1814, T. Philipe, July 6, 1814, p. 140, lot 1621, Art Sales Catalogues Online
13296582
61668507
Art Sales Catalogues Online
5070
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. 76, no. 58, 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/
7681
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Item
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7681
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https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/7681
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/7681
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art