Views in the Levant: Landscape with Travellers Resting under Tree, Temple of Minerva, Medici, Rome
Date:
ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite; squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "ANONYMOUS 18TH C. VIEW OF THE TEMPLE OF MINERVA"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.19451
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | travelers | genre subject | ruins | landscape | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Rome | Levant
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
Publications:
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 53-54, no. 74, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 52, no. 141, pl. 2, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Windows on that world, essays on British art presented to Brian Allen , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2012, pp. 153, 155, fig. 86, N6766 .W56 2012 (YCBA)