John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842, British, Aberystwyth Castle, 1796 to 1806
- Title:
- Aberystwyth Castle
- Date:
- 1796 to 1806
- Medium:
- Watercolor on Medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches (28.6 x 49.5 cm) and Contemporary drawn border: 12 1/8 x 20 1/2 inches (30.8 x 52.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite: "Aberystwyth Castle"
Signed in brown ink, lower right: "J. S. Cotman"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.566
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- castle | landscape | men | sea
- Associated Places:
- Aberystwyth | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10 - 1983-02)
Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (Tate Britain, 2002-07-04 - 2002-09-29)
- Publications:
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Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 43, 152-53, no. III.22, pl. 32, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
Louis Hawes, Constable's Hadleigh Castle and British Romantic Ruin Painting, Art Bulletin, v. 65., no. 3, September, 1983, pp. 462-63, N11 C4 + (YCBA) Also Available online via JSTOR
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2207
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