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- Title:
William Pitt
- Date:
- 1807
- Medium:
- Marble
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 28 1/2 x 18 x 10 inches (72.4 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated by chisel on supporting column on back of bust: "Nollekens Ft. 1807."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.20
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- man | politician | politics | portrait | prime minister
- Associated People:
- Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister
- 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:1465
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Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 186, 189-90, 191, 199, 207-08, fig. 206, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catalogue of the art treasures of the United Kingdom : collected at Manchester in 1857., Bradbury and Evans, London, p. 136, no. 128, N5056 .M35 M25 1857 (YCBA) Also available in Hathitrust [YCBA]
Linda Colley, Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, p. 193, fig. 40, DA485 .C65 2014 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Murrays Books sales, London, 1968, p. 276, NB496 G85 1968 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London; New York, 1920, p. 14 (vol. 2), NJ18 N73 S645 1920 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Angus Trumble, The Marble Bust, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2004, no. 8, V 1304 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellis Waterhouse, Sculpture from the Paul Mellon Collection at the British Art Center at Yale, Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, May 1977, p. 351, N1 +B87 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]