Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 3/4 inches (25.7 x 37.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in pen and violet ink, upper right: "7"; in graphite, lower center: "41 | (The register in the Christie Cat. Af. 10 1805"; in graphite lower right: "1. 1/ "; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, upper left: "6"; in graphite, center: "Monte della Madonna near Argua the residence of Petrarch"; in pen and brown ink, center: "Monte della Madonna, near Arqua the residence | of Petrarch - "; in graphite, center: "Cozens"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.1001
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | mountain | hills | clouds | figure | sleeping | light | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Veneto | Italy | Campagna | Madonna, Monte della
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 113-4, no. I.2, pl. 89, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 48-9, no. 130, fig. 53, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)