Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 3/8 inches (25.7 x 36.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, on back of mount [now in object file]: "No. 9 | Near Oxford, half past 7 o'clock, P.M. Octr. 5th. 1858. | William Turner, | Oxford."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1767
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | astronomy | science | nighttime | fall | stars | trees | river | hills | comet | evening | dusk
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Weltraum - Outer Space (Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, 2014-10-03 - 2015-02-22)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)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)Fire and Ice - History of Comets in Art (National Air and Space Museum, 1985-10-24 - 1986-03-31)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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, pp. 290-291, no. 104, pl. 104, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Jane Bayard, Works of splendor and imagination, The exhibition watercolor, 1770-1870 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 69-70, no. 65, pl. 65, ND1928 B39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 60, fig. 68, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Roberta J.M. Olson, Fire in the sky, Comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 232-33, fig. 126, N6766 O45 1998 (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. 104, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)