- Title:
- Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Former Title(s):
- A View of Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1760 and 1762
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 28 7/8 x 38 1/4 inches (73.3 x 97.2 cm), Frame: 35 × 44 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (88.9 × 113 × 8.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.35
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.35FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cattle | costume | country house | cows | dogs (animals) | field | geology | horses (animals) | landscape | mansion | men | mountains | obelisks | park (grounds) | pediment | people | pilasters | science | sheep | trees | waterfall
- Associated Places:
- Ireland | Leinster | United Kingdom | Wicklow | Wicklow
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:548
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Robert O'Byrne, A Vanishing World, March 2015, p. 121, fig, 1, N1 A54 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 35; 80, no. 26, fig. 26, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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