Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British, Donnybrook Fair, 1788
- Title:
- Donnybrook Fair
- Date:
- 1788
- Medium:
- Watercolor with black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 3/8 x 23 1/2 inches (41.6 x 59.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black ink, lower right: "FWheatley del | 1788"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6316
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- apron | baby | barrel | baskets | bellows | bonnet | breeches (trousers) | bridles | buttons | cape | cart | children | coats | cups | dress | fair | foliage | genre subject | hats | hay | horses (animals) | infants | jugs | mantles | men | napkins | pot | reins | saddle | shoes (footwear) | sign | skirt | spoon | sticks | stockings | stocks (neckcloths) | straw | table | tablecloth | tents | vests (main garments) | whip | women | yoke
- Associated Places:
- Dublin | Éire
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no.73, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)
Jane Fenlon, Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period : New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620 - 1820, Newbridge, Country Kildare, Ireland, 2016, p. 161, fig. 06.04, N6787 I75 2016 (YCBA)
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, Cat. No. 73, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15334
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