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- Title:
- Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box
- Former Title(s):
- Interior view of Westminster Abbey on the commemoration of Handel, taken from the manager's box, many of the figures are portraits. [1793, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm), Frame: 58 x 48 x 4 inches (147.3 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and possibly dated, lower right: "E. Edward | [?]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.254
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.254FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | audience | chorus | commemoration | genre subject | interior | mass | music | nave | organs (aerophones) | people | performance
- Associated Places:
- City of Westminster | England | Greater London | London | United Kingdom | Westminster Abbey
- Associated People:
- Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759), composer
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:757
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