Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British, Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will', 1820
- Title:
- Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'
- Date:
- 1820
- Medium:
- Oil on board
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Dated center, illegible: "1[?]20"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.679
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.679FR
- Subject Terms:
- armchair | attorneys | bonnet | children | death | family | fireplace | grief | hat | lawyer | men | mirror | mourners | mourning | notary | reading | study (visual work) | will | women
- Access:
- Not on view
- Exhibition History:
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Nicola Hicks (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-11-14 - 2014-03-09)
- Publications:
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Flavia Dietrich, A Picture for the Barvarian King: David Wilkie's The Reading of the Will (1820), British Art Journal, 4, Summer 2003, p. 37-44, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online: Art Source; JSTOR databases
David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, p.169, fig. 140, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1139
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