Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Patrick Nasmyth, 1787–1831, British
Title:
A View of Cessford and the Village of Caverton, Roxboroughshire in the Distance
Date:
1813
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 x 33 1/2 inches (58.4 x 85.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "Ptk Nasymth | 1813"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.486
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
field | animals | cows | livestock | landscape | town | village | view | hills | castle | buildings | rural | lake | men | water
Associated Places:
Scotland | Scottish Borders | Roxburghshire | Kale Water | United Kingdom
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)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 170-171, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 165, no. IV.9, pl. 140, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, pp. 17, 19, no. 144, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:970