Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Day, 1764–1807
Title:
Matlock Baths, Derbyshire
Date:
ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 3/8 × 22 1/2 inches (44.1 × 57.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, with black ink, on mount, center: "Matlock Baths, from the Guilderoy Mine at the Head of the Valley | Derbyshire"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.149
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | houses | workers | women | genre subject | mountains | cliffs | cityscape
Associated Places:
England | Matlock Bath | Europe | United Kingdom | Derbyshire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
William Hauptman, John Webber : Landschaftsmaler un Südseefaher = Pacific voyager and landscape artist, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1996, pp. 202-3, no. 44c, NJ18 .W382 H28 (YCBA)

Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century English paintings, drawings and watercolours : 26 March 1975, Sotheby's, London, March 26, 1975, pp. 86-7, lot 152, Auction Catalogues

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 70-71, no. 55, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9410