Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British

Title:

Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

Date:

1751

Materials & Techniques:

Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "237"; in pen and black ink, upper right: "36"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink, bottom left: "Lord Hopetoun's lead mines--"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1978.39.3

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Scotland | Leadhills | South Lanarkshire

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)

Publications:

David Ainley, Blinded by Spectacle, Disregard for Human Labour in a Landscape of Joseph Wright of Derby, and a Painter's Respnse folloiwng modernism , Digital and Material Arts Research Centre, University of Derby, January 12, 2012, p. 14, Available online http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621637

Stephen Daniels, Paul Sandby, picturing Britain , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009, p.15, fig. 2, NJ18 Sa56 P3 2009 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Celina Fox, The arts of industry in the Age of Enlightenment, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, p. 369, fig. 164, N72.T4 F69 2009 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 34, 37, no. 29, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:18380