Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842, British
Title:
Domfront, Looking to the South East
Date:
1820
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (28.3 x 41.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Domfront. looking south east"; in graphite, lower right: "J. S. Cotman"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4695
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | man | dogs (animals) | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Domfront
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 45, Pl. X, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, p. 8, no. 17a, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf

Jean-Philippe Cormier, J.S. Cotman, peintre de Domfront, nouvelles oeuvres "domfrontaises", nouvelles versions , Conferences d'Histoire Locale du Lycee de Domfront, 2012-2013, p. 27, 35, V 2134:2 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v. 1: intro. p. 8, p. 103, no. 174, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 45, Pl. X, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)

Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, p. 334, fig. 10, N1 A54 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8692