Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Title:
Galleria di Sopra, Albano
Date:
ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 18 3/8 x 24 1/2 inches (46.7 x 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and black ink lower left: "A.C."; on mount in pen and brown ink lower left: "Cousins."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1904
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
clouds | goats | landscape | study (visual work) | trees | grove | shepherd | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Campagna | Italy | Albano, Lago | Europe
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)

Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)

English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)

Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)

The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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. 270, no. 60, pl. 60, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Adolf Paul Oppé, Alexander & John Robert Cozens, With a reprint of Alexander Cozens' A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape , A. and C. Black, London, 1952, p. 135, NJ18 C83 O66 (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. 60, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Maria Delores Sanchez-Jauregul, The English prize, the capture of the Westmorland, an episode of the grand tour , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, p. 189, fig. 121, N9135 .E54 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 620, TLS Historical Archive

Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 131, 132, pl. 145, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 41, no. 92, pl. 36, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8892