Thomas Jones, 1742–1803, British, active in Italy (1776–83)
Title:
The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum
Date:
1778
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (27.3 × 41.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "2"; in graphite, upper center: "part of the Antique Aquaduct that convey'd water to M. Palatine- | May 1778"; in graphite, center right: "2 the Collosseo-"; in graphite, lower right: "vinyard"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2637
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | ruins | arches | trees | amphitheater | aqueduct | architectural subject | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Italy | Rome | Lazio | Roma | Aqua Claudia | Colosseum
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)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (National Museum Wales, 2003-05-21 - 2003-08-10)Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2003-08-22 - 2003-10-26)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
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. 263, no. 48, pl. 48, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 51, no. 68, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)Sir Lawrence Gowing, The originality of Thomas Jones, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1986, pp. 33, 38, pl. 31, NJ18 .J714 G68 1986 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 92, 148, no. III.14, pl. 73, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Marble Hill House, Thomas Jones (1742-1803) : First exhibition of the artist's recently discovered oil sketches of Wales, Rome and Naples [at] Marble Hill House, 1 June-16 August [and] National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 24 August-30 September, Greater London Council, London, 1970, p. 21, no. 38, NJ18 .J714 M37 (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. 48, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Greg Smith, Thomas Jones (1742-1803) : an artist rediscovered, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003, p. 197, no. 90, pl. no. 90, NJ18 J714 T56 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English drawings and watercolours : 27 November 1975, Sotheby's, November 27, 1975, p. 24, lot 90, pl. XXII, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 122, no. 101, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)