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George Barret RA, ca. 1728/32–1784, Irish, Landscape Set in an Oval (Mountain Landscape Through an Oval Window), ca. 1775
- Title:
Landscape Set in an Oval (Mountain Landscape Through an Oval Window)
- Date:
- ca. 1775
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 18 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (47 × 59.7 cm), Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 1/4 inches (37.8 × 54 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 14 × 19 1/8 inches (35.6 × 48.6 cm), Image: 12 1/4 × 17 3/4 inches (31.1 × 45.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower left: "D1931/George Barret RA 1732 (or 1728)-1784 | LGD | C1775 a Study; based on the scenery of the Lake District, for the room painted by Barret for William Lock of Norbury | of the paper by Christopher Hussey in Country Life of Feb 17, 1934, on the Sandby Room at Drakelow & the Barret Room at Norbury. LGD"; inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "G Barret"
Signed, in graphite, lower right: "G. Barrett"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6095
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10921
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