- 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), Mount: 6 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches (16.2 x 27 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:
- banks | Grand Tour | houses | landscape | river | trees
- Associated Places:
- Avon | England
- 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:9193
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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) [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) [YCBA]