Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Title:
Bristol Hot Wells
Date:
ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on thin, smooth, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 8 7/8 inches (12.7 x 22.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink upper right: "Bristol | Hot Wells."; in pen and brown ink upper left: "1 Sun misty But ye body of it very bright | 2 very Tend.r from ye Sun | 3 ye edges of ye hills faintly mark'd all in mist Pretty warm but greyish | 4 green field in ye sun | Tend.r Grey upon it"; Inscribed on back in graphite lower right: "<B 1979. 29. 1> | IR 337/1"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2808
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
hills | clouds | reflections | houses | lakes | architectural subject | cityscape
Associated Places:
England | Bristol
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. 10, 38, no. 83, pl. 32, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9192