Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 inches (20.3 x 15.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, under the image: "J. Russell delt ["t in superscript] June 10th 1794"; in ink at top: "Drawing of part for the Map of the Moon;" shorthand notations in graphite, right of center, and below, left of center.
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.920
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
moon | maps | landscape
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)Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-07-01 - 2019-09-22)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : An important collection of English 18th century drawings and watercolours : 12 November 1968, Christie's, 1968, p. 55, lot 164, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Mia Fineman, Apollo's muse : the moon in the age of photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019, pp. 33, 173, no. 7, QB595 .F56 2019 (YCBA)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)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 52, 109, no. 99, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 75, no. 57, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)