Watercolor and graphite with scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/8 x 25 3/8 inches (38.4 x 64.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, center right: "William Daniell R.A. | (1769-1837) | View of London Bridge & St. Paul's Cathedral | The Original watercolor by the artist | afterwards engraved by him as Plate III in | his Views (6) of London. & Published by him | These form a magnificent scenes & show | Daniell at his very best as an artist & engraver | This drawing, quiet and restrained in its | colouring is undoubtedly one of his finest. | From the collection of the artist's daughter | Mrs. Rose Wood, who died in 1914, aged 102"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Ellen Burney"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1990
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
marine art | cityscape | cathedral | bridge (built work)
Associated Places:
London | St. Paul's Cathedral | London Bridge
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds : Travel, Print, and Empire 1770-1820, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 2019, p. 224, fig. 180, NE2230 .F674 2019 (LC) OversizeLouis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 98, 191, no. VI.10, pl. 79, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)