Watercolor with pen and brown, black, and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/16 x 21 1/16 inches (31.6 x 53.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray-black ink, lower right: "Rowlandson 1791"; in gray black ink, lower center: "VIEW OF THE MARKET PLACE AT JULIERS IN WESTPHALIA, | The dutchy of Juliers is situate between the Maase and the Rhine and bounded by the Prussian Guilderland on the north, | by the electorate of Triers on the south by the electorate of Cologne on the east, and by the Netherlands on the west, being | about 60 Miles long, and 30 broad. This is a very plentiful country, abounding in corn, cattle and fine meadows, and is | plentifuly supplied with wood, but is remarkably prinncipally for a fine breed of horses, and wood for drying which is | gathered here in abundance. The Chief Towns are, Juliers, Aix la Chappelle, Durn, Munster, Bedbur, Wasenberg, and Lanterns."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.146
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
baskets | architectural subject | buildings | cityscape | market places | nuns | square (open space) | doors | people by ideology, philosophy, or political activity | sky | windows | monks | weathervanes | crucifixes | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Germany | Westphalia | North Rhine-Westphalia | Europe | Jülich
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)