Hendrik Frans de Cort, 1742–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1789)
Title:
Chepstow Castle
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 33 inches (67.3 x 83.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.163
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | ruins | figures | boats | woman | men | water | geology | science | cliff | bridge (built work) | castle | hill | architectural subject
Associated Places:
Wye | Chepstow Castle | United Kingdom | Cymru | Monmouthshire | Wales | Chepstow
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 70-71, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil) from the XVIth century to the XIXth century, (describing more than 800 painters) , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, UK, 1974, v. 3, pp. 241, ND1354 G73 1971+ (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 40, 142, no. III.3, pl. 28, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 3, no. 1, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 28, cat. 22, V2722 (YCBA)Turner and Girtin's picturesque views sixty years since. With thirty engravings of the olden time, J. Hogarth, London, pp. 9-12, NJ18 T85 M55+ (YCBA)