Landscape Set in an Oval (Mountain Landscape Through an Oval Window)
Date:
ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 18 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (47 × 59.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower left: "D1931/George Barret RA 1732 (or 1728)-1784 | LGD | C1775 a Study; based on the scenery of the Lake District, for the room painted by Barret for William Lock of Norbury | of the paper by Christopher Hussey in Country Life of Feb 17, 1934, on the Sandby Room at Drakelow & the Barret Room at Norbury. LGD"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "G Barret"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection