Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Title:
London from Greenwich Hill
Date:
ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches (37.8 x 53.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4703
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | domes | buildings | trees | hills | river | deer
Associated Places:
Thames | London | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

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

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

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:
Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature : British landscape painting, 1750-1850, , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 156-157, no. 38, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : Important English drawings and watercolours : 6 June 1972, Christie's, June 6, 1972, p. 29, lot 98, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 100-102, 194, no. VI.16, pl. 81, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Olivia Horsfall Turner, Nobleness & grandeur : forging historical landscape in Britain 1760-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2005, p. 20, no. 36, V 1420 (YCBA)

Lowell Libson Ltd : British Art : 2016, Lowell Libson Ltd., 2016, p. 30, Dealer Cat Lowell Libson 2016 (YCBA)

Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 48, no. 77, pl. LXXXIX, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 165-7, no. 142, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 51, no. 137, pl. 36, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9189