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Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Title:

Howard Visiting a Prison

Former Title(s):

John Howard Visiting a Lazretto

Date:
undated
Medium:
Black ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 21 inches (35.6 x 53.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "145"

Circular collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541); oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4542)

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1979.12.666
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
cloth | correctional institution | figure study | historical subject | men | nudes | prison | women
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6796
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Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Suzanne E. May, " Sublime and infernal reveries " : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter, Thesis (Ph.D.) -- John Moores University, Liverpool, 2007 , British Thesis Service, Boston Spa, Wetherby, April 2007, v.1, p. 112, v.2, fig. 104, NJ18.R65 M39 2007A OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no. 81, NJ18 R65 S46 [ORBIS]


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