Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794, Swiss, Departure from a French Inn: An Illustration for Sterne's Sentimental Journey, 1775
- Title:
- Departure from a French Inn: An Illustration for Sterne's Sentimental Journey
- Additional Title(s):
- La Fleur taking leave of his female acquaintance at the inn at Montreuil
- Date:
- 1775
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 3/8 inches (13.5 × 18.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed upper left: "Poste Royale"
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, lower right: "S.H. Grimm Fecit | 1775"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5036
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- genre subject | signs
- Associated Places:
- France
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9862
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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2014-01-17 - 2014-04-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Rotha Mary Clay, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of Burgdorf in Switzerland With a foreword by His Excellency Monsieur Charles Rudolph Paravicini and a chapter contributed by Paul Girardin., Faber & Faber, London, 1941, between pp. 24 and 25, pl. 29, NJ18 G81 C53 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Hauptman, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) : a very English Swiss, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2014, pp. 122-23, cat. no. 37, NJ18.G81 H38 2014 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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