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)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4685
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)
