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- Title:
The Hermitage
- Former Title(s):
The Hermitage North End Road, London
A View of Mr. Foote's Villa at North End
- Date:
- ca. 1772
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 32 1/2 x 51 3/8 inches (82.6 x 130.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.30.5
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- actor | agriculture | architectural subject | basket | bench | boy | brick | bridge (built work) | buildings | child | cityscape | country house | espalier trees | fields | garden | gardening | gate | mansion | mother | playwright | pond | river | serpentine (shape) | son | trees | wall | water | woman
- Associated Places:
- England | London | St. John's Church, Smith Square | St. Paul's Cathedral | United Kingdom | Westminster | Westminster Abbey
- Associated People:
- Foote, Samuel (bap. 1721, d. 1777), actor and playwright
- 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:1393
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Christopher Christie, The British country house in the eighteenth century, Manchester University Press, Manchester [England] New York, 2000, p. 156, fig. no. 63, NA7562 C57 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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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. 61, 126, no. 143, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Newenham Summerson, Georgian London, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003, NA970 .S96 2003 (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. 55 (v.1), no. 202, pl. 46, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]