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- Title:
Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire
- Date:
- 1792
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite and pen and black ink on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (16.8 × 21.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In artist's hand, in pen and black ink, on mount, ll: Edwd. Dayes 1792; in pen and brown ink, on mount, lr: Jas Moore Delt 22nd Augt 1792; in pen and black ink, on mount, lc: Melrose Abbey, Roxburgshire Transcribed from modern [?] inscription in graphite on verso: Note. Another drawing of this identical subject, by "Girtin," measuring 11 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, probably a little later in date than this from which it was doubtless/copied, was in the Moor [?] and Millis Collection. Girtin has removed the ? partial blocking/ from the window on the extreme left and filled in the rest with broken cufferboarding [illegible]/ never found in such a position and indicating that he was not, in this instance working/ from nature?
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "Edw. Dayes 1792"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.820
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- abbey | architectural subject | cows | man | tombstones
- Associated Places:
- Europe | Melrose Abbey | Roxburghshire | Scotland | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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