- Title:
Entrance to Brentford
- Date:
- 1809
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (30.2 × 41 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Entrance to <...> 1809"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Entrance to Brentford | from London"; in graphite, upper center: "The Entrance to Brantford | from the Star and Garter at Kew Bridge | WH HARRIOT | August 5th. 1809"; in graphite, center right: "D3528"
Paul Mellon collector's mark
Lettered in brown ink inside image, upper left: "STAR & GARTER | TAVERN. WM. IRELAND. | Dinners dressd. on the shortest | Notice. Neat Wines &c. | Lodgings for single Gentlemen. | AND FAMILIES. | NB. GOOD STABLING."; center left: "Ordered. That no Coachman or other | Driver shall stand with his Carriage for | any longer than is absolutely necessary | to take up and set down his Fare, in any part | of this Road between the four nearest Notice Posts."
Signed and dated on verso in pen and brown ink, upper center: "WH HARRIOT | 5 August 1809"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5445
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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William Henry Harriott, active 1811, died 1839, British, Entrance to Brentford, 1809
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