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- Title:
Dr O'Meara Preaching
- Additional Title(s):
Dr. O'Meary Preaching
Dr. O'Meara giving his sermon. ch 1809
- Date:
- 1809
- Medium:
- Watercolor over graphite with pen and dark gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches (10.5 x 7.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and gray ink, upper center: "Doctor O Meary wishing to be made | a Bishop applied to Mrs. Clarke in | hopes her influence with the Duke of York - | to obtain leave to preach before Royalty - | his Sermon was well | received, but unfortunately | for him his Name beginning with the Letter O - | stopt his preferment -"; inscribed on verso in graphite: center left: "Rowlandson"; center: "x6"; lower left: [numbers and symbols]
Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a); collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.70
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- male | papers | portrait | robe | vicar | wig
- Associated People:
- O'Meara, Barry Edward (b. in or after 1770?, d. 1836)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5597
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Mathew Thomas Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827, his life, art & acquaintance , Hogarth Arts, London, 2010, p. 279, fig. 117, NJ18 R79 P39 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]