Gray and brown wash with pen and brown ink over graphite with gum on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper prepared with brown wash, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 20 13/16 x 15 7/8 inches (52.9 x 40.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, upper center: "Revd. W Gilpin | of Boldre. 1771."; on back, lower right: "D. 1369"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5442
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | path | forest | trees | figures | walking | night | dark
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Carl Paul Barbier, William Gilpin : his drawings, teaching, and theory of the picturesque, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963, p. 34, pl. 5, NJ18 .G386 B27 + Oversize YCBARev. William Gilpin, The Reverend William Gilpin and the picturesque : an exhibition of the works of the Reverend William Gilpin, 1724-1804, and other members of the Gilpin family, June to September 1959, London County Council, London, 1959, p. 18, no. 34, NJ18 .G386 B26 1959 YCBAScott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 60-61, no. 46, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)