Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Inscribed on verso in pen and black and brown ink, upper left: "View of Revel from the Sea taken from the Defiance on the 16th of May 1801"; in pen and black and brown ink, upper right: "Many of the Buildings in the lower town are of wood for which reason I have given some | of them a tinge of red to shew that they were built of brick and tiled, the tops of the Churches | and Publick buildings are covered with Copper, which has a green hue, the High Ground | on which the upper Town or Citadel Stands is a grey earth, with a ragged free Stone Rock, just | under the Walls, the Walls and Towers are in decay. | vv under these mists on the left is the Mole."
Descriptive Medium
Gray wash, brown wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured cream laid paper
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
Tallinn, Estonia
Country
Estonia
Medium
Wash Drawing
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
