Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Title:
The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"
Date:
between 1745 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches (64.8 x 78.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.338
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
literary theme | interior | men | women | room | stick | book | chair | chair | family | brother | cane | back | seated
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Basic Instincts (The Foundling Museum, 2017-09-29 - 2018-01-07)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 116-117, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p.31, ND466 G67 (YCBA)

Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, p. 86, fig. 76, NJ18.H4888 R53 2017 (YCBA)

The Harlowe Family by Joseph Highmore : A note on the illustration of Richardson's Clarissa, , Huntington Library Quarterly, v. 7, no. 1, November 1943, pp. 88-96, Film B89 reel 1 (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 11, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:58