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Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804, British, Fir Trees in a Mountain Landscape, undated
- Title:
Fir Trees in a Mountain Landscape
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Gray wash with pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches (16.2 x 25.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Sale 6 May 1802"; in pen and brown ink on accompanying sheet: "Landscape often appears to great advantage, set off | by [the] body of [trees] through which it is seen. They put it in a kind of frame-work, when they do not inter- | fere with [the] principle objects, of wh. [the] landscape | consists. Here they do not. You have a distinct visa | of [the] whole. __ This sketch represents two opposing hills | in the second distance; one of which is crowned with | a large castle. Between these two hills appears a woody bottom, with the distant [...] of a moun- | tain beyond it."
Collector's mark: William Gilpin (Lugt 2622a)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5896
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- fir | landscape | mountains | trees | valley
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7624
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