Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786, British, Roman Sketchbook, 1746
- Title:
Roman Sketchbook
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1746
- Medium:
- Graphite, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, black wash, gouache and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, bound in vellum
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm) and Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (18.7 x 13 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink inside front cover, center: "Notes and sketches by | Alexander Cozens, | my great grandfather. J.Y."; inside back cover in graphite, upper left: "Peggy Quere"; in graphite and red chalk, center: "2"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.166
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | buildings | forum | Grand Tour | ruins | sketches | trees
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Rome
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:18383
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A. P. (Adopf Paul) Oppe, A Roman sketch-book by Alexander Cozens, Volume of the Walpole Society, 16, Walpole Society, 1927, pp. 81-91, N12 W35 A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp.17-20, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)
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