- Title:
Nîmes from the Tour Magne
- Additional Title(s):
Nimes
- Date:
- ca. 1765
- Medium:
- Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm), Sheet: 14 3/8 x 21 inches (36.5 x 53.4 cm), Image: 16 1/2 x 23 1/8 inches (41.9 x 58.8 cm), Image: 14 3/8 x 21 inches (36.5 x 53.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center on mount within borders: "Nimes.-"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back of mount: "Wm. MARLOW"
Watermarked, center (written vertically downwards) : "JWHATMAN" [letters; similar to Heawood 3475]
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left within image: "W. marlow"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.366
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- amphitheater | animal | arches | architectural subject | baskets | bricks | buildings | city | cityscape | clouds | distance | donkeys | figures | genre subject | Grand Tour | grass | hills | landscape | mountains | people | Roman | Roman (style or period) | ruins | shrubs | sky | stone | temples | tower (building division) | town | trees | wall
- Associated Places:
- Arena of Nîmes | Europe | France | Maison Carrée | Nîmes
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11209
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Thomas Jefferson and the Design of Monticello (The Octagon Museum, 1994-07-28 - 1994-10-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Howard Adams, The Eye of Jefferson : Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1976, pp. 203-4, no. 350, E332.2 .E88 + Oversize (LSF) [ORBIS]
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by William Marlow, 1740-1813 : 30th June to 22nd July, 1956 at the Guildhall Art Gallery, The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1956, p. 16, no. 59, NJ18 .M3754 E95 1956 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 31, no. 47, pl. LXXII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 116, no. 95, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]