- Title:
- The Rustic Lover
- Additional Title(s):
- The Rustic Courtship
- Date:
- 1786
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4 inches (43.2 x 34.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower right: "F. Wheatley delt. 1786"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6315
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- apron | barrel | basket | bird | birdcage | bodice | bonnet | box (container) | bricks | buckles | buttons | cat (domestic cat) | chairs | cloth | coat | courtship | courtship | cupboard | distaff | door | genre subject | hat | hinges (fasteners) | interior (space) | laces | leaves | lover | lovers | man | milk | mug | nails | peasants | pot | ribbon | rooms | saucer | scissors | shirt | shoelaces | shoes (footwear) | skirt | spinning wheels | stockings | table | thread | window | woman
- 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:15332
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 267, no. 54, pl. 54, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catalogue of the art treasures of the United Kingdom : collected at Manchester in 1857, Bradbury and Evans, London, p. 180, no. 60, N5056 .M35 M25 1857 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 54, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]