Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 x 16 3/8 inches (14.3 x 41.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "entrance to Festiniog"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "Thomas Rowlandson"; in brown ink, verso, lower left: (collector's stamp)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.344
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
man | trees | hills | valleys (landforms) | cottages | road | landscape | horse (animal) | cattle
Associated Places:
Gwynedd | Europe | Wales | Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | Ffestiniog | Cymru | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Collection, 1990-02-10 - 1990-04-08)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Art Museum, 1990-04-21 - 1990-06-03)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 118, no. I.10, pl. 94, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne's Lake District Sketchbook, The Winterbourne Press, Lewes, p. 32, fig. 8, NJ18.T695 W55 2017 (YCBA)