- Title:
A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black ink, lower left: "MA Rooker"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.1128
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | ball games | benches | bowls | castle | dog (animal) | fence | genre subject | hats | inn | leisure | men | trees
- Associated Places:
- Berkshire | England | Hurst | St. Nicholas Hurst | United Kingdom
- 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:47374
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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]
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 123, 373, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Judy Egerton, L. G. Duke and his collection of English drawings, Old Water-Colour Society's Club Annual Volume, vo. 49, 1974, pp. 10, 24, pl. I, N12 .O54 A1 + Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 39, no. 317, DA485 F25 1990 (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, pp. 65, 134, no. 159, N6766 Y34 1977 (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. 109, no. 90, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]