Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817, British
Title:
River Landscape with Figures
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 12 × 9 3/4 inches (30.5 × 24.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower left: "105x"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Hearne"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "WE"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1241
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | genre subject | trail | path | sailboats | figures | sticks | forest | river | trees | wood | gathering | walking
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
Publications:
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 40-41, no. 14, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Eighteenth-century theorists argued that picturesque subjects relied on irritation of the retina for their effect, thereby producing a pleasing sensation in the viewer. With its sharp contrasts between light and dark and rough and smooth textures, Hearne’s wooded path offers precisely the kind of visual stimulation commentators praised as quintessentially picturesque. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10545