Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on thick, rough, blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 x 16 13/16in. (25.6 x 42.7cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "Chamouny Glacier"; on back, upper center: "Chamouny"; on back, center right: "D 72"; on back, lower left: "H 15703"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.9731
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
glacier | river | mountains | trees | landscape | sunset
Associated Places:
Arve | Mer de Glace (glacier) | Alps | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc | Haute-Savoie | Mont Blanc | Rhône-Alpes | France
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 114-115, no. I.4, pl. 91, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)