Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, Butterfly Hunting, ca. 1806
- Title:
- Butterfly Hunting
- Additional Title(s):
- The Butterfly Catcher Spoiling the Bed of Tulips
- Date:
- ca. 1806
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches (13.3 x 18.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.60
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- butterflies | doorway | garden | genre subject | hunting | leisure | men | net (object) | parterres | running | sporting art | tulips | windows | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5587
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elisabeth Fairman, Of green leaf , bird , and flower : artists' books and the natural world, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 26, 27. 230, fig. 19, N7650 .O4 2014 [ORBIS]
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