- Title:
An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre
- Date:
- ca. 1785
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.149
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- audience | costume | hats | opera glasses | play | spectators | theater
- Associated Places:
- Covent Garden | Drury Lane | England | Europe | London | 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:6440
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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]
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 272-73, no. 64, pl. 64, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, p. 61, no. 242, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ann Bermingham, The consumption of culture, 1600-1800, Image, object, text , Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), New York, 1995, p. 348, DA485 C667 1995 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 19, no. 118, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 6, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. xix, 6-7, no. 5, pl. IV, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 106-8, no. 88, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]