Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scraping out on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 15/16 inches (32 x 43.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "Hill 1819"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4907
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | blacksmiths | labor | dog (animal) | cattle | animals | cows | hay | donkeys | horses (animals) | animal art | working | genre subject | village | staff | baskets | hats | street | road | bonnet | father | men | baby | children | mother | winter | snow | families | women | houses | barn | rural | trees | town | snowstorm | storm
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (National Gallery of Art, 1993-05-02 - 1993-07-25)The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1993-01-15 - 1993-07-25)Winter (The Hood Museum of Art, 1986-02-01 - 1986-03-16)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 280, no. 82, pl. 82, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 82, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christiana Payne, Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 52-3 (betw.), 137, 154-5, no. 62, pl. 28, ND1354.4 P39 1993 (YCBA)Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, p. 333, Pl. XI, N1 A54 + (YCBA)