Watercolor, black ink, graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (42.5 x 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in graphite upper left: "9 9 4 6 | Mount AEtna from Grotta del Capro (underlined) | ( S < . . . > inde B.7.8) | te; in graphite center: "< 910 3-13 >"; in graphite lower center: "J.R. COZENS : NEAR CHIAVENNA"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4634
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
people | clouds | landscape | rocks (landforms) | mountains | fires | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Campagna | Italy | Grisons | Chiavenna
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018-09-21 - 2018-12-09)Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019-02-16 - 2019-05-12)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 48, no. 62, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)C.F. (Charles Francis) Bell, The Drawings And Sketches of John Robert Cozens, A Catalogue With An Historical Introduction , Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 23, 1934-1935, p. 35, no. 47, N12 W35 A1 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 270, 272-3, fig. 7, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei, britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog] , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, Mèunchen, 1979, pp. 174-75, no. 76, fig. 76, ND466 Z85 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 270, 272-3, fig. 7, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 620, TLS Historical ArchiveKim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 123, 124-25, pl. 138, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 44-5, no. 71, pl. LXXXVI, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 117, no. 96, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 9, 42-3, no. 95, pl. 38, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)