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Creator:
Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Title:
Forest Pool
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite, with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 11 1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: [...]; inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "Bo/s 3308 | MTI"

Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2707
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
forest | landscape | pond
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9782
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From around 1800 Robert Hills was an active member of the Sketching Society, a group of like-minded artists who met on winter evenings to discuss their art and to draw. Regular summer trips to the countryside around London allowed them to sketch in the open air directly from nature. This unfinished sketch was likely the product of one of the Sketching Society's annual summer trips. All across the foreground are copious notes in the distinctive shorthand that was shared by other members of the group but which remains undeciphered.

Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 88-89, no. 37, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]


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