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- Title:
Cloud Study
- Former Title(s):
Study of Cumulus Clouds [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Looking Southward [1937, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1822
- Medium:
- Oil on paper laid on panel
- Dimensions:
- 11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm), Frame: 16 3/4 × 24 1/2 inches (42.5 × 62.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.116
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.116FR
- Subject Terms:
- blue | clouds | gray (color) | landscape | light | meteorology | science | science | space | study (visual work) | texture | white (color)
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:627
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