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- Title:
Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin
- Additional Title(s):
Pluscardine Abbey
- Date:
- ca. 1793
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.7 x 16.8 cm), Mount: 11 11/16 x 9 13/16 inches (29.7 x 24.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower right: "T. Girtin"; inscribed in pen with black ink, lower center of mount: "Pluscardine Abbey"; inscribed in graphite, lower right of mount: "[nr?]. Elgin-"; Verso: in graphite, center: "7" (encircled)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.1146
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | clouds | figure | grass | meteorology | rainbow | ruins | science | sky | trees
- Associated Places:
- Elgin | Europe | Moray | Pluscarden Abbey | Pluscardine Abbey | Scotland | United Kingdom
- 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:5856
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Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (Tate Britain, 2002-07-04 - 2002-09-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Susan Morris, Thomas Girtin, 1775-1802, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 38, no. 25, NJ18 .G44 M67 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]