Mountainous Landscape with Two Figures overlooking a Lake
Date:
between 1780 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, pen and brown ink, graphite and yellow ground on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 13/16in. (18.7 x 27.5cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in pen and brown ink lower left: "Sale 6 June, 1804"; in graphite center left: "5"; in graphite center: "11"; in graphite lower left: "WG"; in graphite lower right: "Gilpin, Rev.William | Mountainous Landscape with | two figures overlooking | a lake | (MH 63/6/21/6)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5901
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | lake | trees | mountains | figures (representations)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 11, 55, no. 152, pl. 9, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)