Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium moderately textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (15.6 x 23.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "No. 29"; In brown ink, verso, upper left: "No 29"; upper right: "taken after the sun was [?down] on the right hand side"; upper center: "a view taken from Law Wood, looking over the Lake of Windermere in Westmoreland, | to the mountains at the head of Coniston Lake. | drawn by Francis Towne August 16th, 1786"; upper left: "London | Leicester Square | July 7th 1791."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1759
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | trees | mountains | lake | sunset
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 44, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1805, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2024, p. 88, fig. 5.5, PR5864 .A2 E54 2024 Oversisze (YCBA)