Travelling. J.M.W. Turner in Search of the Sublime and Picturesque (LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 2019-11-08 - 2020-01-26)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)William Beckford, 1760-1844 (The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)William Beckford, 1760-1844 (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
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. 9, no. 21, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon ShelfJohn Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, pp. 48-49, no. 63, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)C.F. (Charles Francis) Bell, The Drawings And Sketches of John Robert Cozens, A Catalogue With An Historical Introduction , Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 23, 1934-1935, p. 45, no. 142, pl. XIIa, N12 W35 A1 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 5, 6, 31, no. 20, ND1354.4 B85 (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, p.63, no. 64, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 47, no. 75, pl. XIII, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 129,130, 138, pl. 143, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)Turner : horror and delight, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, p. 98, no. 13, NJ18.T85 A12 2019b Oversize (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 43, no. 96, pl. 39, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 48-49, no. 18, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
One of Cozens's patrons was the wealthy young connoisseur William Beckford, a pupil of Alexander Cozens. He began commissioning replicas of Cozens's Swiss and Italian views in the early 1780s, and this view of Lake Nemi outside Rome once formed part of Beckford's collection. Instead of representing the lake in a balanced classical composition, Cozens takes his view from the lake itself, looking up the steep cliffs to the village of Nemi. Here the crater's sloping side becomes an imposing rocky crag with the medieval castle and village skyline adapted to give it more variety and visual interest. A turbulent cloudy sky completes the transformation of the lake from the archetypically beautiful into the sublime. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)