William Green, 1760–1823, British, View of Lakes Buttermere and Crummock Water, 1803
- Title:
- View of Lakes Buttermere and Crummock Water
- Date:
- 1803
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and gum over graphite on medium, smooth wove paper mounted on card
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 5/8 x 19 7/8 inches (37.1 x 50.5 cm), Mount: 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (39.4 x 54 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in artist's hand in pen and brown ink center: "March 1803 Wm Green"; inscribed on back in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower right: " No 12 | Two lakes Buttermere and | Cr[ummock] Water"
Signed and dated on verso in pen and brown ink center: "March 1803 Wm Green"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.690
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | figures | lakes | landscape | mountains
- Associated Places:
- Buttermere | Cumbria | England
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10402
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 5, no. 30, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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