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- Title:
The John Bacon Family
- Former Title(s):
John Bacon and his Family [1980, D'Oench, The Conversation Piece, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1742 and 1743
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 x 51 5/8 inches (76.2 x 131.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.274
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.274FR
- Subject Terms:
- arch | boys | busts | cards | children | columns | conversation piece | couple | drapery | family | fireplace | games | girl | globe | home | interior | man | music | musical instrument | painting (visual work) | portrait | room | science | seated | sextant | stick | table | telescope | white (color) | window | woman
- Associated People:
- Bacon, John
- 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:769
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 86-87, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 124-125, fig. 72, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, pp. 57, 272-73, no. 45, NJ18 D5151 D635 1979A (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Peter DeBolla, Education of the Eye, Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain , Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2003, pp. 47-49, 61, fig. 1, YCBA BH221. G7 D4 2003 [ORBIS]
Patricia Fara, Science, A Four Thousand Year History , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, p. 134, no. 20, Q125 F27 X 2009 (SML) [ORBIS]
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J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 40, 87, no. 42, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 64, fig. 50, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Riely, Evidence in Literary Scholarship, Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn , Oxford University Press, London, 1979, p. 150, PR403 E95 (LSF) [ORBIS]
Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, pp. 126, 166-167, No. 152, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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