A Distant View of Maidstone, from Lower Bell Inn, Boxley Hill
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 x 30 1/2 inches (55.9 x 77.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "P Sandy | 1802"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6272
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sheep | horse (animal) | cattle | cows | dogs (animals) | walking | people | hill | house | fence | path | inn | carriages | genre subject | view | landscape
Associated Places:
Europe | England | Kent | Maidstone | United Kingdom
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 Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain : Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 32-33, fig. 7, NJ18.Sa56 A15 V5 2006 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 56, 163-164, no. IV.6, pl. 44 (detail) and 138, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 100-1, no. 131, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)