The Meteor of August 18, 1783, as seen from the East Angle of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid apper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 x 19 inches (31.8 x 48.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper center: "East end of With the meteor"; in graphite, upper right: "with two sketches of the meteor"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1993.30.115
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | landscape | terrace | bench | trees | walls | science | astronomy | east | north | angle | comets
Associated Places:
Windsor Castle | Windsor and Maidenhead | Europe | United Kingdom | Windsor | Berkshire | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, p. 311, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (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. 69-75, fig. 38, pl. III, N6766 O45 1998 (YCBA)Jane Roberts, Views of Windsor : Watercolours by Thomas and Paul Sandby from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Collection Publications, London, 1995, pp. 68-9, fig. 18.3, NJ18 .Sa56 R65 1995 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 74, no. 56, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)