Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jean Louis Desprez, 1743–1804, French
Title:
Somerset House, Saint Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriar's Bridge
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/2 x 71 inches (64.8 x 180.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6146
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
boats | gondolas | cityscape | rivers | bridges (built works) | cathedrals | buildings | city
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Somerset House | Blackfriar's Bridge | London | Thames | St. Paul's Cathedral
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (Nationalmuseum, 1997-01 - 1997-04-20)

Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III (The Courtauld Gallery, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-01)
Publications:
G. A. Bremner, Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 130, fig. 4.3, NA964 .A7295 2016 (YCBA)

Sigrid De Jong, Rediscovering architecture : Paestum in eighteenth-century architectural experience and theory, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014, p. 31, fig. 15, DG70.P3 J65 2014 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15198