Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso, center: "This old fashioned foreground [...] is now | emphatically called the [...] Bridge as those | who can only compose in that way, can only | get into the landscape over it -- besides the | nature of water colours have real depth for it. | not so | Let these be gradations and opposition and | there let your emphasis tell - not too strongly; but | expressively and determinately. | Varley -"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso, center left: "Imitation of Turner"; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "17"
Descriptive Medium
Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
USA
Country
USA
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Thomas Sully was an American artist based mainly in Philadelphia. He travelled to England on more than one occasion. This piece is from a sketchbook of 'Lessons in Landscape Painting' suggesting it may be an imaginary or derivative composition.
