Landscape with Buildings: Possibly at Richmond, Surrey
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 28 1/8 inches (24.1 × 71.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "Milton | Beakley N[...] | 30 1/8 x 11 1/2 | CL120"; in blue pencil lower leftt: "126"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4649
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 10-11, no. 1, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
A lawyer by profession, William Taverner was also an accomplished amateur artist, whose drawings were much sought after even by professional artists such as Paul Sandby. One contemporary noted Taverner's "wonderfull genius to drawing of Landskap," describing his views as being "in an excellent manner…adorn'd with figures in a stile above the common." In this watercolor, perhaps an idealized view of the countryside at Richmond near London, Taverner's buildings and figures are borrowed from celebrated continental landscapists such as Claude Lorraine and Marco Ricci. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)