Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34 x 51.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower right: "J. Smith 1792"; in graphite, upper center: "Ullswater looking to Caterdale No 48"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.266
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | mountains | valley (landform) | lake | sky | boat | trees
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Lake District | Cumbria | Ullswater | Patterdale | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Theresa 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, p.15, fig. 11, NJ18.Sa56 A15 V5 2006 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 38, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)