Watercolor, black and white chalk, and oil paint, with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, backed with laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 11 3/8 inches (22.9 x 28.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Fleur-de-Lys
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1198
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
rocks (landforms) | landscape | pond | grass | foliage | bark | boulder | woodland | trees | tree | stream | water
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)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04)Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19)Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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. 12, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)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. 27, no. 37, 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. 257, no. 36, pl. 36, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Ann Bermingham, Landscape and ideology, the English rustic tradition, 1740-1860 , Thames and Hudson, London, 1987, pp. 337-38, fig. 17, ND1354.4 B47 1987 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 32, fig. 25, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Gainsborough, 1727-1788, Grand Palais, 6 fâevrier-27 avril 1981. , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1981, p. 190, no. 94, NJ18 G16 H393 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Gainsborough drawings, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 23, 116-17, no. 48, col. pl. 48, NJ18 G16 H392 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven London, 1971, vol. 1, pp. 180-81; vol. 2, p. 357, no. 311, pl. 107, NJ18 G16 H39 + (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Tate Publishing, [S.l., 1980, p. 57, no. 22, NJ18 G16 H48 (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. 62, no. 58, 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, v. 2, no. 36, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 17-18, no. 25, pl. LX, 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. 62-4, no. 48, NC228 W53 2001 (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. 12, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)