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- Title:
Self-Portrait
- Former Title(s):
Portrait of the Artist [1831, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1830
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm), Frame: 36 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (92.1 × 80 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in ochre brown paint, lower right: "JWARD [in monogram] R.A | 1830"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.659
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.659FR
- Subject Terms:
- artist | coat | curtains | man | painter | portrait | self-portrait | waistcoat
- Associated People:
- Ward, James (1769–1859), painter and printmaker
- 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:1121
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James Ward (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-05-21 - 2004-08-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Oliver Beckett, The life and work of James Ward, R.A., 1769-1859, the forgotten genius , Book Guild, Lewes (England), 1995, p. 199, no. 242, NJ18 W21 B42 1995 (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, 236, 237, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Edward John Nygren, James Ward, RA (1769-1859) : Papers and Patrons, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 75, 2013, frontpiece, p. 346, no. 412, N12 W35 +A1Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]