Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center on mount within borders: "Nimes.-"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back of mount: "Wm. MARLOW"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.366
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | landscape | Roman | town | ruins | cityscape | baskets | stone | arches | wall | city | figures | tower (building division) | buildings | grass | amphitheater | temples | shrubs | trees | mountains | hills | distance | people | Roman (style or period) | bricks | architectural subject | clouds | animal | sky | donkeys | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Europe | Nîmes | France | Maison Carrée | Arena of Nîmes
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Thomas Jefferson and the Design of Monticello (The Octagon Museum, 1994-07-28 - 1994-10-02)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
William Howard Adams, The Eye of Jefferson : Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1976, pp. 203-4, no. 350, E332.2 .E88 + Oversize (LSF)An exhibition of paintings and drawings by William Marlow, 1740-1813 : 30th June to 22nd July, 1956 at the Guildhall Art Gallery, The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1956, p. 16, no. 59, NJ18 .M3754 E95 1956 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 31, no. 47, pl. LXXII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 116, no. 95, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)