An imaginary landscape with a traveller and figures overlooking the Bay of Baiae

Jones, Thomas (1742-1803)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1773
Height:
48.4 cm  (19 1/16 in.)
Width:
74.8 cm  (29 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Yale Center for British Art
    Paul Mellon Collection[Museum inv. no.: B1973.1.29]Signed and dated in green paint, very faint, lower right: "[...] Jones | 1773"

Description

This painting presents an expansive landscape view which includes, in the left foreground, three individuals resting near a tree, one playing an end-blown wind instrument (probably a reed instrument such as oboe or shawm).

Iconclass

25HH
landscapes - HH - ideal landscapes
46C513
'en route', traveller underway
46C5135
(traveller) resting in the open air
48CC7525
one person playing wind instrument - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Oboe [4232] (or shawm)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Cormack, Malcolm. A concise catalogue of paintings in the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1985) 130-131.



Smith, Greg. Thomas Jones (1742-1803): an artist rediscovered (New Haven: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003) 15, 140-141, no. 29.

Notes

For Francesco Renaldi's portrait of Thomas Jones and his family (with keyboard instrument), see RIdIM item 6232.

RIdIM record id

6227