Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite and black crayon on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 15/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.5 x 61.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper right: "Cavallo at a distance."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4704
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | terrace | piazzas | palazzo | cityscape | bell towers | buildings | churches | trees | hill | chimneys | windows | roofs | stairs | patio | towers | steps | figures | archways | terracotta | pine | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Italy | Lazio | Roma | Rome | Monte Pincio | Europe | Church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti | Spanish Steps | Palazzo del Quirinale
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)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, pp. 37-8, no. 50, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)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. 264, no. 49, pl. 49, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Hugh Belsey, Exhibition reviews : Paul Mellon's legacy : New Haven and London, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, p. 715, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 272-273, fig. 10, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (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. 49, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 272-273, fig. 10, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)The idea of Italy : photography and the British imagination, 1840-1900, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, p. 21, fig. 3, TR57 .I33 2022+ (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 33-4, no. 50, pl. VIII, 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. 121, no. 100, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)