Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Attributed to Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Title:
Handel in Vauxhall Gardens
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (18.1 × 10.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: " Handel in Vauxhall Gardens". Inscribed in black ink on mount: " Handel by Roubilliac in the Vauxhall Gardens. | An original drawing by Edward Francis Butney | cousin of Burney the historian of Music. "
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1983.17
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
gardens | memorial | architectural subject | statue
Associated Places:
Southwark | Lambeth | London | England | Vauxhall Gardens | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, p. 255, fig. 269, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7084