Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30 x 44.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Scratched signature, lower right: "Dayes"; not dated
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2577
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | genre subject | valley | sailboat | trees | mountains | reservoir | child | boy | peasants | fisherman | merchant | gesture | woman | man | rocks (landforms) | fishing pole | fields | fish
Associated Places:
Westmorland | Haweswater Reservoir | Cumbria | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Picturesque and Sublime - Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance (Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2018-04-29 - 2018-11-04)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Picturesque and sublime : Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018, pp. 106-107, no. 9, NJ18 .C67 B37 2018 (YCBA)C. Reginald Grundy, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettlefold, Bemrose & sons, London and Derby, 1933-1938, vol. 2, pp. 10-11, N5247 .N47 G78 + Oversize (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, pp. 5, 8, no. 22, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, p. 108, no. 150, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 54-5, no. 92, pl. XIV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 67-9, no. 52, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)