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- Title:
Lee Priory, Kent
- Date:
- 1785
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 25 x 38 3/4 inches (63.5 x 98.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in ocher-color paint, lower left: "Dixon Pinx. | 1785"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.1.8
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.1.8FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | brown | clouds | country house | Gothic Revival | green | house | landscape | octagon | park (grounds) | priory | trees
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Ickham | Kent | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Barrett, Thomas (1744–1803), antiquary
Wyatt, James (1746–1813), architect
Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797) - 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:199
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Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 40-41, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 76, 116, no. 32, pl. 32, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 333, 338, 339, no. 382, fig. 382, N6764 H36 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Peter N. Lindfield, Rediscovering Lee Priory's Lost Library Ante-Chamber, Georgian Group Journal, v. 25, The Group, London, p. 207, fig. 1, NA966 G46 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew M. Reeve, "A Child of Strawberry": Thomas Barrett and Lee Priory, Burlington Magazine, v. CLVIX, London, December 2015, p, 836, N1 B87 2015 [ORBIS]