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- Title:
Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: Two Sketches of Men
- Date:
- 1751
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "237"; in pen and black ink, upper right: "36"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink, bottom left: "Lord Hopetoun's lead mines--"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.39.3
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cattle | cows | figures | landscape | lead | livestock | mine | mountains | ore | science | water | waterwheel
- Associated Places:
- Leadhills | Scotland | South Lanarkshire
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:18380
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