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- Title:
- Matlock Baths, Derbyshire
- Date:
- ca. 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 17 3/8 × 22 1/2 inches (44.1 × 57.2 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 14 5/16 × 19 5/8 inches (36.4 × 49.8 cm), Sheet: 13 13/16 × 19 3/16 inches (35.1 × 48.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, with black ink, on mount, center: "Matlock Baths, from the Guilderoy Mine at the Head of the Valley | Derbyshire"
Collector's: J Whatman (letters; similar to Heawood 3459)
Signed in pen, with brown ink, lower center: "W Day"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.149
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cityscape | cliffs | genre subject | houses | men | mountains | women | workers
- Associated Places:
- Derbyshire | England | Europe | Matlock Bath | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9410
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
William Hauptman, John Webber : Landschaftsmaler un Südseefaher = Pacific voyager and landscape artist, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1996, pp. 202-3, no. 44c, NJ18 .W382 H28 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century English paintings, drawings and watercolours : 26 March 1975, Sotheby's, London, March 26, 1975, pp. 86-7, lot 152, Auction Catalogues [ORBIS]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 70-71, no. 55, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]