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- Title:
An Unknown Man in a Library
- Date:
- between 1740 and 1741
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.231
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.231FR
- Subject Terms:
- book | bookshelf | brown | desks | fireplace | library | man | painting (visual work) | portrait | reading | white (color) | wig
- 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:740
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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]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 84-85, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 457, No. 203, 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. 9-10, 43, 90, cat. no. 2; AD List no. 203, pl. 2, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]
R. Parkinson, Arthur Devis and His Contemporaries: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn: Exhibit, Burlington Magazine, v. 123, no. 934, January 1981, p. 61, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, p. 161, pl. 150, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]