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Mary Harcourt, 1750–1833, British, Lake Morat from Avenches, ca. 1780
- Title:
Lake Morat from Avenches
- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Medium:
- Brushed brown ink, brown wash, graphite and brown ground on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (21.6 x 27.6 cm), Mount: 11 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (29.8 x 34.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink upper right: "Lake Morat from Avenche[...]"; inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink upper right: "Lake Morat - "; in graphite lower right: "Lac Morat"; inscribed on back on mount in graphite center: "<G. W. Girtin> | Royal | 17"; in graphite lower left: "T. Girtin coll.4 | (T670/3/27/65) | (pm 5770)"; in graphite lower right: "Cozens, Alexander | Lake Morat from | Avranches"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.814
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- lake | landscape | mountains | trees | valley (landform)
- Associated Places:
- Avenches | Europe | Fribourg | Morat, Lac de | Switzerland
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10196
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The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 12, 57, no. 157, pl. 27, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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