Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish, Sunset over a River Landscape, early 1840s
- Title:
- Sunset over a River Landscape
- Date:
- early 1840s
- Medium:
- Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches (31.2 x 44.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black ink, lower left: "F. DANBY"; not dated
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower center: "25 19"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1487
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- birds | cattle | cliffs | cows | evening | landscape | light | mountains | river | rocks (landforms) | sunset
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Eric Adams, Francis Danby, varieties of poetic landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973, no. 143, NJ18 D199 A32 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Scott Wilcox, British watercolors, drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 55, pl. 55, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8945
- Export:
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