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- Title:
Mousehold Heath, Norwich
- Former Title(s):
Mousehold Heath
- Date:
- 1808
- Medium:
- Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (31.8 x 23.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in in watercolor, lower left: "Francia"; inscribed on back in graphite, center: "Done for his friend. Wm Peirson | as a small return for his | Imitations of Kobell's Etchings | by L'Francia. 1808-"
Watermark: [illeg.] DANGO[?]IOIS/ [Illeg.]/ BB
Signed in watercolor, lower left: "Francia"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4680
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- hills | landscape | pond | road | trees
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Mousehold Heath | Norfolk | Norwich | 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:9580
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An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, p. 10, cat. no. 32, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf [YCBA]
British Drawings and Water-Colours in an American Collection-, Illustrated London News, vol.240,no. 6403, April 21, 1962, p. 627, Available Online: Illus.London News Hist. Archive [ORBIS]
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Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 44, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]