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- Title:
Celadon and Amelia
- Date:
- 1766
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm), Plate: 17 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches (44.5 x 54.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "20./ - "
Lettered lower left: "R.Wilson pinxit Londini."; lower left: "The tempest caught them on the tender walk, | _____________ from his void embrace, - | Mysterious Heaven! that moment to the ground, | A blacken'd corse, was struck the beauteous maid."; lower center: "CELADON and AMELIA | from an original picture, in the Collection of Wm. Lock Esqr. | Publifh'd June 10th. 1766 as the Act directs, by Wm. Woollett in Green Street, Leicefter Fields, & Ryland & Bryer at the King's Arms in Cornhill, London."; lower right: "But who can paint the lover, as he stood, | Pierc'd by severe amazement, hating life, | Speechless, and fix'd in all the death of woe! | Thompson's Summer, p. 1191. 1214."; lower right: "Browne Aqua forti fecit. Woollett Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14566
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bridge (built work) | dead | landscape | lightning | literary theme | meteorology | ruins | science | shepherd | storm
- Associated People:
- Amelia
Celadon - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40373
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