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- Title:
Snowden Hill
- Date:
- 1775
- Medium:
- Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8in. (40 x 54.3cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "<Mr><. . .>"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "16399 | 9 4/20"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered lower left: "Richard Wilson Pinxt."; lower left: "SNOWDEN HILL, | and the adjacent Country in North Wales."; lower right: "LE MONTAGNE DE SNOWDEN, \ avec les Environs dans la Principauté de Galles."; lower right: "William Woollett Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14577
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | fishing | hills | lakes | landscape | mountains | trees
- Associated Places:
- Snowden Hill
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40407
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