- Title:
- The House of Commons
- Date:
- after 1731
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink and brown wash with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (31.8 x 16.5 cm), Sheet: 8 3/4 x 16 inches (22.2 x 40.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "1 The Speaker, Chair | 2 The speaker pointing to | 3 Sir Rob: Walpole | 4. Mr Stables ye fifth clerk | 5. Mr [intentional blank] the other Clerk | 6 Coll. Godolphin | 7. Coll Onslows | 8 Sir Ja: Thornhill | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12"; in graphite, center right: "[...] Thornhill"; in brown ink, lower right: "13 | 14 | 15 |16 |17 |18 |19 | 20 | 21 | 22"; in brown ink, center right: "[?] AD. 1731"; each figure numbered in brown ink on the drawing; inscribed in graphite lower center: "Original Sketch by Sr Js Thornhill of the | Picture of the House of Commons painting [lies] | now at Clandon
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "J Th"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.746
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- balconies | books | chairs | Corinthian | hats | historical subject | history paintings | men | pilotis | politics | quill pens | wigs
- Associated Places:
- Clandon Park | England | Surrey
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12761
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Kathryn James, English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, p. 71, fig. 83, Z115.E5 J36 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]