- Title:
- The Harmonious Family
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink, brushed gray ink, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, within margin, lower right: "Dighton- del"; in brown ink, within margin, upper right: "12;" in black ink, within margin, lower center: "The Harmenious Family"
Watermark: "JWhatman" (initials in monogram) (Heawood 3459)
Signed in pen and black ink, within margin, lower right: "Dighton- del-"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.82
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | family | genre subject | instruments | interior | men | orchestra | women
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16, 18, V 1699 (YCBA)
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 45], V 1699:1 (YCBA)
Melanie Unseld, Delights of Harmony James Gillray als Karikaturist der englischen Musikkultur um 1800, Bohlau Verlag Wien Koln Weimar, Wien, p. 57, fig. 7, NJ18.G3845 A12 2017 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1727
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814, British, The Harmonious Family, undated
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