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- Title:
Gentleman with a Cannon
- Date:
- 1741
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 18 x 12 3/4 inches (45.7 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "ADevis pinx | 1741"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of John Davis Skilton, Jr.
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.22.1
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1993.22.1FR
- Subject Terms:
- breeches | buckles | cannon | costume | cravat | engageantes | figure study | gloves | lake | landscape | man | redingote (overcoat) | ruffle | stockings | sword | tricorne | uniform | waistcoat | water
- 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:4944
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 91, 246, 321, 454, No. 198, NJ18 D5151 D635 1979A (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 10-11, 44-45, 90, cat. no. 5; AD List 198, pl. 5, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]
Sydney H Paviere, The Devis family of painters, F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, 1950, pp. 35, 43, AD List no. 46, pl. 19, NJ18 D515 P28 (YCBA) [YCBA]