Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (22.5 x 28.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "5241"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1419
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
mountains | landscape | lake | rocks (landforms) | boats | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Lucerne, Lake | Europe | Switzerland | Schweiz
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018-09-21 - 2018-12-09)Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019-02-16 - 2019-05-12)Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)Magnificent Switzerland (Museum of Art and History, Geneva, 1991-11-12 - 1992-02-02)Magnificent Switzerland (Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1991-08-01 - 1991-10-31)British Drawings (Davis & Langdale Co.) (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1985-05-01 - 1985-05-31)
Publications:
Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital ArchiveTheresa Fairbanks-Harris, Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain, Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 18, 19, fig. 15, NJ18.Sa56 A15 V5 2006 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 477-8, No. 1480, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)