Gray wash, brown wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 17 3/4in. (12.2 x 45.1cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and black and brown ink, upper left: "View of Revel from the Sea taken from the Defiance on the 16th of May 1801"; in pen and black and brown ink, upper right: "Many of the Buildings in the lower town are of wood for which reason I have given some | of them a tinge of red to shew that they were built of brick and tiled, the tops of the Churches | and Publick buildings are covered with Copper, which has a green hue, the High Ground | on which the upper Town or Citadel Stands is a grey earth, with a ragged free Stone Rock, just | under the Walls, the Walls and Towers are in decay. | vv under these mists on the left is the Mole."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1708
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
capital | steeples | town | sea | cityscape | landscape