Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Title:
The Banks of the Avon at Hotwells
Date:
ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink on thin, smooth, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (15.9 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and black ink upper left: "1 Reflection of ye L: mist | 2 all in mist - | 3 pearly- | 4 mist - | 5 Green - L right | 6 grayish | 7 B: green"; in pen and black ink upper center: "all ye Trees in a warm Mist & all Tender green nothing light | on ye Distant Trees Accept No. 2"; Inscribed on back in pen and brown ink upper right: "Bristol Hot Well (crossed out) | Boar House Matlock"; in graphite lower right: "IR 337/2"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2809
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | houses | banks | trees | river | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
England | Avon
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)
Publications:
Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 93-95, pl. 111, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 10, 38, no. 84, pl. 32, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9193