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- Title:
Saint Cuthbert's Holy Island
- Date:
- 1797
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm), Mount: 13 3/4 x 16 5/8 inches (34.9 x 42.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen in brown ink, verso, center: "St Cuthbert Holy Island | Nothumberland | Girtin"; in graphite, lower right: "2559"
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Girtin 1797"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1215
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | horse (animal) | ruins | stone | woman
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Holy Island | Lindisfarne | Northumberland | 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:5965
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