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- Title:
The Prisoner
- Date:
- 1787 to 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 16 x 18 1/2 inches (40.6 x 47 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "I. W." [or J.W.]
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.715
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.715FR
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | cell | correctional institution | dark | genre subject | prison | prisoner | punishment | sadness | vaulted ceilings | window
- 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:1172
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Exhibition Catalogue. 1789. 21st, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 21, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1789, p. 4, no. 67, N5054 A53 v. 1:2 nos 14-28 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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