Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
George Engleheart, 1753–1829, British
Title:
A Lady of the Blunt Family
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:
Image: 3 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (8.9 x 7.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in brown watercolor lower right: "E"; inscribed on paper backing in pen and black ink: "Miss Blunt | Property of | Mrs. H. Grafton | Edward Fletcher"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.2.38
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 271, no. 62, pl. 62, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : Fine English and Continental miniatures : 28 October 1970, Christie's, 1970, p. 25, lot 88, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 52, no. 56, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 62, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 34, cat. no. 22, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11590