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- Title:
Pope's Villa, Twickenham
- Date:
- ca. 1755
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 17 5/16 x 32 1/8 inches (44 x 81.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.135
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.135FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | boats | buildings | costume | country house | domes | houses | landscape | men | obelisk | poet | river | rowboats | sailboat | swans | villa
- Associated Places:
- England | Greater London | Thames | Twickenham | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), poet
Stanhope, William, first earl of Harrington (1683?–1756), diplomatist and politician - 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:355
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The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
View of Pope's Villa (Kenwood House, 1980-07-19 - 1980-09-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 172-173, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 10, 13, 38-39, 109, no. 17, pl. 17, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Fame & friendship, Pope, Roubiliac, and the portrait bust in eighteenth-century Britain , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2014, p, 24, V 2515 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Prof. Maynard Mack, The World of Alexander Pope, Yale University Press, New Haven, unpaginated, no. 37, Z8704 M37 [ORBIS]
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, p. 44 (v.1), no. 15, pl. 144, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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, p. 60, 125, no. 138, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Kimerly Rorschach, The early Georgian landscape garden, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1983, p. 14, no. 3, SB467.78 .G7 R67 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
James Walker, The Thames through 18th - Century Eyes, Augustine Heckell and his Imitators , Country Life, vol.146, London, July 3, 1969, pp. 24-25, fig. 4, S3 C68 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]