Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches (19.7 x 27 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "J Martin 1821"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1339
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
travelers | tourism | mountains | river | waterfalls | trees | cliff | town | genre subject | landscape | road
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. 152-153, no. 65, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
John Martin is best known today for his vast canvases of epic historical and biblical subjects, but his earliest landscapes were small sepia drawings of ideal scenery. Martin’s first exposure to landscape art was looking at engravings after Claude and Salvator Rosa in the collection of his teacher, the Italian artist Bonifacio Musso. This imaginary view of travelers on a road shows the influence of these engravings on the young Martin, conforming to the conventions of seventeenth-century Roman landscapes with framing trees to the left and a distant prospect of Italianate countryside. 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)