Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and black ink, lower left: "Hearne"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4685
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | valley | fells | national park | road | path | rural | river | mountains | hills | lake | science | geology | sheep | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
England | Derwentwater | Skiddaw | Cumbria | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 39, no. 52, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 272-273, fig. 9, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)David Morris, Thomas Hearne and His Landscape, Reaktion Books, London, 1989, pp. 68-70, no. 51, NJ18 H3545 M68 1989 (LC)David Morris, Thomas Hearne, 1744-1817: Watercolours and Drawings, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, Great Britain, 1985, pp. 8-9, fig. 2, NJ18 H3545 M67 (LC)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 272-273, fig. 9, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 5, no. 31, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 36, no. 55, pl. IX, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pg. 66, cat. 51, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Jonathan Wordsworth, William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick Grasmere, UK, 1987, pp. 148, 228, no. 235, fig. 137, PR5885 W67 1987 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Thomas Hearne visited the Lake District in 1777 and again in 1778 as part of longer tours of the north of England and Scotland on which he accompanied Sir George Beaumont. Hearne's extraordinary view of Derentwater, the "most generally admired" of the Lakes according to Gilpin, emphasizes its austere beauty, capturing what an "ingenious person" quoted by Gilpin described as "Beauty lying in the lap of Horrour." Gallery label for The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)