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- Title:
Mount Kennedy, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Date:
- 1785
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 16 9/16 x 24 1/16 inches (42.1 x 61.1 cm), Frame: 21 1/8 × 28 3/8 × 2 1/4 inches (53.7 × 72.1 × 5.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: “William Ashford 1746 - 1824 | View of Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow the home | of Mrs. Hull, formerly the home of General | Cunningham, which was designed by James Wyatt | Engraved by T. Milton 1787”; center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | A/N [handwritten] C343 | Paul Mellon | [typed] 3169”
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "Washford | 1785"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.92
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.92FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | boy | costume | country house | dog (animal) | horses (animals) | house | landscape | man | path | running | whip | woman
- Associated Places:
- Ireland | Leinster | United Kingdom | Wicklow | Wicklow
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:317
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