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unknown artist, Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea, after 1771
- Title:
Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea
- Date:
- after 1771
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm), Sheet: 11 × 7 1/2 inches (27.9 × 19.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center: "Mrs. Yates"; in graphite, on back, lower right: "watercolor mrs yates | 18th cent British actress"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2009.9.201
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actress | boys | children | Classical | clouds | costume | crying | dark | fear | fist | gesture | Greek mythology | light | literary theme | Medea (play) | mother | necklace | night | play | religious and mythological subject | shielding | sons | stripes | theater (discipline) | woman
- Associated People:
- Yates [née Graham], Mary Ann (1728–1787), actress and theatre manager
Medea - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61808
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