- Title:
- View of the Market Place at Juliers in Westphalia
- Date:
- 1791
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and brown, black, and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 7/16 x 21 1/16 inches (31.6 x 53.5 cm), Mount: 15 3/8 x 24 inches (39.1 x 61 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray-black ink, lower right: "Rowlandson 1791"; in gray black ink, lower center: "VIEW OF THE MARKET PLACE AT JULIERS IN WESTPHALIA, | The dutchy of Juliers is situate between the Maase and the Rhine and bounded by the Prussian Guilderland on the north, | by the electorate of Triers on the south by the electorate of Cologne on the east, and by the Netherlands on the west, being | about 60 Miles long, and 30 broad. This is a very plentiful country, abounding in corn, cattle and fine meadows, and is | plentifuly supplied with wood, but is remarkably prinncipally for a fine breed of horses, and wood for drying which is | gathered here in abundance. The Chief Towns are, Juliers, Aix la Chappelle, Durn, Munster, Bedbur, Wasenberg, and Lanterns."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.146
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | baskets | buildings | cityscape | crucifixes | doors | Grand Tour | market places | monks | nuns | people by ideology, philosophy, or political activity | sky | square (open space) | weathervanes | windows
- Associated Places:
- Europe | Germany | Jülich | North Rhine-Westphalia | Westphalia
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5624
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]