Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Crome, 1768–1821, British
Title:
Entrance to Earlham Park, near Norwich
Date:
between 1807 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/8 x 18 3/16in. (56.2 x 46.2cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "JOHN CROME: ENTRANCE TO | EARLHAM PARK"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4636
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
laborers | peasants | landscape | cart | fences | wagon | workers | trees | men | park (grounds) | resting | shovel | field
Associated Places:
Norwich | Norfolk | England | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 47, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, pp. 9, 25, cat. no. 26, Pl. 26, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf

Giorgia Bottinelli, A passion for landscape : rediscovering John Crome, Norfolk Museums Service, Norwich, U.K., p. 59, fig. 57, NJ18.C89 A12 2021+ (YCBA)

Jonathan Mayne, Taste in Water-Colour, Apollo, v. 77, no. 14, April 1963, p. 291, fig. 2, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Second copy available in Vertical File : V1168

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 102, no. 167, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 47, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8531