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- Title:
View of London Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral
- Date:
- ca. 1804
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite with scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/8 x 25 3/8 inches (38.4 x 64.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, center right: "William Daniell R.A. | (1769-1837) | View of London Bridge & St. Paul's Cathedral | The Original watercolor by the artist | afterwards engraved by him as Plate III in | his Views (6) of London. & Published by him | These form a magnificent scenes & show | Daniell at his very best as an artist & engraver | This drawing, quiet and restrained in its | colouring is undoubtedly one of his finest. | From the collection of the artist's daughter | Mrs. Rose Wood, who died in 1914, aged 102"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Ellen Burney"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1990
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bridge (built work) | cathedral | cityscape | marine art
- Associated Places:
- London | London Bridge | St. Paul's Cathedral
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9198
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds : Travel, Print, and Empire 1770-1820, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, p. 224, fig. 180, NE2230 .F674 2019 (LC) Oversize [ORBIS]
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 98, 191, no. VI.10, pl. 79, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]