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- Title:
Entrance to the Grotto at Posilippo, Naples
- Date:
- 1781
- Medium:
- Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches (32.1 x 23.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Names (Heawood 3462)
Inscribed black ink, upper left: "No 9"; upper center: "Naples | March 23, 1781"; in brown ink, upper center: "Francis Towne"; in graphite, upper center: "32 73.P. Entrance to the Grotto at | Posilippo - see drawings | at B.M."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1416
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cliffs | Grand Tour | grotto | landscape | road
- Associated Places:
- Naples | Posillipo
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5080
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 271, 273, fig. 8, N5220 M552 A7 1977 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Published as April 1977 issue of Apollo; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 105:2 +] [YCBA]
Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 271, 273, fig. 8, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)] [YCBA]
Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3923, May 20, 1977, p. 620, Film S748 (SML) Also avaiable online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS) [ORBIS]