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- Title:
Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Former Title(s):
A View of Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1760 and 1762
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 28 7/8 x 38 1/4 inches (73.3 x 97.2 cm), Frame: 35 × 44 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (88.9 × 113 × 8.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.35
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.35FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cattle | costume | country house | cows | dogs (animals) | field | geology | horses (animals) | landscape | mansion | men | mountains | obelisks | park (grounds) | pediment | people | pilasters | science | sheep | trees | waterfall
- 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:548
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