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- Title:
The Mistletoe Bough
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 22 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (57.5 × 47 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.117
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.117FR
- Subject Terms:
- alcohol | basket | candlestick | caps | celebration | chair | Christmas | costume | cottage | courtship | dance | dinner | elderly | feast | fireplace | food | genre subject | girls | kissing | lovers | meal | men | mop caps | morality | party | peasants | roast beef | table | winter | women
- 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:454
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British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) [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. 246-247, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, p. 30, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 72, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 216, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (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, p. 141 (v.1), no. 268, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 71 (v.1), no. 255, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
W. Roberts, F. Wheatley, R.A., His life and works , Otto limited, London, 1910, p. 20, pl. 111, NJ18 W56 +R63 (YCBA) [YCBA]