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- Title:
An Ornithologist, Possibly John Latham [2020, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
An Ornithologist, Probably Mr. Thomson, Animal and Bird Preserver to the Leverian and British Museums (Previously Identified as Dr. John Latham), 1802
? Dr. John Latham [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
Portrait of Mr. Thomson, animal and bird preserver to the Leverian and British Museums [1802, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1802
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 58 x 58 inches (147.3 x 147.3 cm), Frame: 67 × 66 inches (170.2 × 167.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.517
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.517FR
- Subject Terms:
- Andean Cock-of-the-rock | birds | Black-necked Red Cotinga | books | brown | coat | drawer (furniture component) | feathers | Great Argus | Greater Bird-of-paradise | Highland Motmot | man | ornithologist | painting (visual work) | pheasant | portrait | Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise | Red-legged Honeycreeper | Superb Lyrebird | table (support furniture) | waistcoat | work
- Associated People:
- Latham, John (1740–1837), naturalist
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1001
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David Attenborough, Drawn from paradise, the discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise , Collins, London, 2012, frontpiece, pp. 54-55, QL696.P26 A77 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 229, no. 249, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition Catalogue. 1802. 34th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 34, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1802, p. 19, no. 394, N5054 A53 no. 34 [ORBIS]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 149 (v.1), no. 284, pl. 155, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 50, 107, no. 92, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, p. 109, no. 254, N5054 .A545 1951/52 (YCBA) Also available Fiche B185 at the YCBA Reference Library and Photo Archive [YCBA]