- Title:
- Mountain Tops (A Mountain Study)
- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Medium:
- Brown wash, gray wash, graphite, and brown ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (23.5 x 31.1 cm) and Mount: 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches (37.5 x 49.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "5 100"; in graphite, lower right: "22x16 | Plain David Cox | overmount"; in graphite, lower right: "D 814 | 802" in graphite, lower right: "22 3/8 x 19 5/8"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "D. 814 | T < . . . > 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 H[...]a | 31/P/N | B[...] BK"; in graphite, center: "91"; in graphite, lower right: "COZENS Alexander | A Mountain Study (D.292) | (LGD 65/9/22/8) | (PM 2368)"
Signed on mount in pen and gray ink, lower left: "Alexr. Cozens"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5233
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | landscape | mountains | rocks (landforms) | study (visual work)
- 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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The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)
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Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 77, pl. 88, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7813
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786, British, Mountain Tops (A Mountain Study), ca. 1780
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