Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
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."
Descriptive Medium
Gray wash with pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
England
Country
England
Medium
Wash Drawing
Tags
Category
Flora & Fauna