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- Title:
Cottage on Fire at Night
- Former Title(s):
A village on fire [1794, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1785 and 1793
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm), Frame: 29 1/4 × 38 1/2 inches (74.3 × 97.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "J. Wright. | 17[??]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.714
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.714FR
- Subject Terms:
- burning | castle | cottage | disaster | evening | fence | figures | fire | flames | landscape | landscape | light | men | moon | moonlight | night | river | water
- 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:1171
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 264-265, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 47-8 (v.1), no. 174, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 34, cat. 30, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 63 (v.1), no. 233, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]