unknown artist, Villa Pliniana on the Lake of Como, ca. 1828
- Title:
- Villa Pliniana on the Lake of Como
- Date:
- ca. 1828
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 inches (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Villa Pliniana Lagodi" [illegible - paper torn]; and in ink, verso, lower right: "Plianiana on ye Lake of Como"; and upper center, verso: "No. 71."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.841
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | birds | bushes | cliffs | Grand Tour | lake | landscape | trees | villa | waterfalls
- Associated Places:
- Como, Lago di | Europe | Italy
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7890
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Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds : Travel, Print, and Empire 1770-1820, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, p. 256, fig. 209, NE2230 .F674 2019 (LC) Oversize [ORBIS]
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