Watercolor, graphite, gum, scraping out and stopping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 27 3/4 x 41 inches (70.5 x 104.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back of mount in graphite, lower left: "27 1/8 X 40 1/2"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4650
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | valley | trees | mountains | river | glacier | snow | shepherd | meteorology | geology | ice | ice | science | clouds | snake | sheep | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Europe | Alps | Mer de Glace (glacier)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)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)Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (National Gallery of Art, 1993-05-02 - 1993-07-25)The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1993-01-15 - 1993-07-25)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)Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19)Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20)Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital ArchiveTimothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019, p. 196, fig. 98, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (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. 283, no. 86, pl. 86, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Denise Amy Baxter, Architectural space in eighteenth-century Europe : constructing identities and interiors, , Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT, 2010, pp. 174-175, fig. 9.3, NA2850 A73 2010 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 14, 121, no. I.16, pl. 10, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 16, no. 28, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Mapping a National Style : topography & landscape at the Yale Center for British Art, , Apollo, vol. 165, April 2007, p. 58, fig. 9, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 95, no. 146, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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. 86, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christiana Payne, Silent Witnesses : Trees in British Art, 1760-1870, Sansom & Co., Bristol, 2017, p. 144, fig. 75, NX650.T74 P39 2017 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Turner, Thames & Hudson, London, 2020, fig. 36, NJ18.T85 R49 2020 (YCBA)Eric Shanes, The life and masterworks of J.M.W. Turner, Parkstone Press, New York, 2008, pp. 118-119, NJ18 T85 S441 2008 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Ian Warrell, J.M.W. Turner, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, pp. 44, 54, fig. 18, NJ18 T85 A12 2007 + (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp.93, 341, no. 365, pl. 90, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, p. 334, fig. 9, N1 A54 + (YCBA)