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- Title:
Windermere at Sunset
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium moderately textured cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (15.6 x 23.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "No. 29"; In brown ink, verso, upper left: "No 29"; upper right: "taken after the sun was [?down] on the right hand side"; upper center: "a view taken from Law Wood, looking over the Lake of Windermere in Westmoreland, | to the mountains at the head of Coniston Lake. | drawn by Francis Towne August 16th, 1786"; upper left: "London | Leicester Square | July 7th 1791."
Signed in black ink, lower left: "F. Towne. del. 1786"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1759
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- lake | landscape | mountains | sunset | trees
- 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:5081
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 44, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA) [YCBA]