Pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.1 x 25.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite center right: "John Brown Romae"; in graphite upper right: "6[...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4152
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
geography | men | geographers | genre subject | book | globe | map | table | chair
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1994-02-06 - 1994-04-03)Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993-07-22 - 1993-09-19)Visions of Antiquity - Neo-classic Figure Drawings (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1993-10-30 - 1994-01-02)The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
Publications:
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 46, no. 59, NC228 B37+ (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. 268, no. 56, pl. 56, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : Remaining part of the valuable collection of modern drawings, a few paintings. . . the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence : 17 June 1830, Christie's, June 17, 1830, p. 8, lot 105, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineEdouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 78, 80, 311, Fig. 2, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (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. 56, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 60, 62, no. 61, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)T. Philipe sale catalogue : A catalogue of the rich & extensive collection of original drawings, by the great masters of all the schools, particularly the Italian . . . : 6 June 1814, T. Philipe, July 6, 1814, p. 140, lot 1621, Art Sales Catalogues OnlineScott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 76, no. 58, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)