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- Title:
Sketch for the Eidometropolis: Panorama, Great Surrey Street and Christchurch, Southwark
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1802
- Medium:
- Graphite and pen and brown ink, squared for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (29.2 x 50.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink throughout on roofs: "slate"; in black ink, lower right: "TEL" collectors stamp; in pen and black ink, verso, center: "Although this drawing does not seem to have been | used by Thomas Girtin for his panorama of | London, the squaring up of this drawing is exactly | the same as upon drawings for this work: -- | the squares are the same size and the numbering | is by the same hand -- Thomas Lowinsky 1938--"
Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4325
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | buildings | carriages | carts | churches | cityscape | horses (animals) | panoramas | people | roofs | rooftops | streets | weathervanes | windows
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Greater London | London | Southwark | 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:5972
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Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (Tate Britain, 2002-07-04 - 2002-09-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Panoramania (Barbican Art Gallery, 1988-11-03 - 1989-01-15) [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, pp. 24, 45, 72, no. 79, NJ18 .G44 M67 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]