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- Title:
The Building of Westminster Bridge
- Former Title(s):
The Building of Westminster Bridge with an Imaginary View of Westminster Abbey [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1742
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 27 x 47 inches (68.6 x 119.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.3.33
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1974.3.33FR
- Subject Terms:
- abbey | boats | bridge (built work) | building | cityscape | cityscape | construction | river | rowboats
- Associated Places:
- City of Westminster | England | Europe | Greater London | London | Thames | United Kingdom | Westminster | Westminster Abbey | Westminster bridge
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:191
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Mikael Ahlund, Landskapets roster, studier i Elias Martins bildvèarld , Atlantis, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 277, 279, Bild 173, NJ18 M3866352 A45 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Canaletto to Constable, paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 9, 37, pl. 6, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 196-197, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Markman Ellis, River and Labour in Samuel Scott's Thames Views in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, London Journal, vol. 37, November 2012, pp. 167-68, fig. 7, Available online : ORBIS (in Taylor $ Francis Online) [ORBIS]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 200-01, cat. 59, no. 59, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Kingzett, Catalogue of the Works of Samuel Scott, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 48, Walpole Society, Oxford, 1982, pp. 55-56, 57, D, Pl. 21b, N12 W35 A1 48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]