- Title:
Portrait of a Boy
- Former Title(s):
Boy Seated
- Date:
- August 3, 1793
- Medium:
- Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (24.4 x 19.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Geo. Dance"; in graphite, lower left: "Aug st[in superscript] 3 d[in superscript] 1793."
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Geo. Dance"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.359
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boy | portrait | seated | youth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2000
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 8, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, pp. 10, 19, cat. no. 28, Pl. 28, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf [YCBA]
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 35, no. 47, NC228 B37+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Hardie, Water-colour painting in Britain, B.T. Batsford, London, 1967, vol. 1, pl. 122, ND1928 .H37 1967 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA [ORBIS]
Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 81, no. 86, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 204, no. 406, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 29, no. 14, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 8, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]