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Thomas Smith of Derby, ca. 1720–1767, British, Chiaja of Naples from Posillipo, ca. 1780
- Title:
Chiaja of Naples from Posillipo
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: very faint sketch of landscape
- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 7/16 x 15 3/4in. (21.4 x 40cm), Sheet: 8 3/8 × 15 3/4 inches (21.3 × 40 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and black ink: "Naples, from the road which goes over the grotto of Posilipo"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1743
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Naples
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12943
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 36, no. 33, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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