- Title:
Near Chiavenna in the Grisons
- Former Title(s):
Felsen Landschaft in der Naehe von
- Date:
- ca. 1779
- Medium:
- Watercolor, black ink, graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (42.5 x 62.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in graphite upper left: "9 9 4 6 | Mount AEtna from Grotta del Capro (underlined) | ( S < . . . > inde B.7.8) | te; in graphite center: "< 910 3-13 >"; in graphite lower center: "J.R. COZENS : NEAR CHIAVENNA"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4634
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | fires | Grand Tour | landscape | mountains | people | rocks (landforms)
- Associated Places:
- Campagna | Chiavenna | Grisons | Italy
- Access:
- View by request 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:9171
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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
C.F. (Charles Francis) Bell, The Drawings And Sketches of John Robert Cozens, A Catalogue With An Historical Introduction , Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 23, 1934-1935, p. 35, no. 47, N12 W35 A1 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 270, 272-3, fig. 7, 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]
John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei, britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog] , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, Mèunchen, 1979, pp. 174-75, no. 76, fig. 76, ND466 Z85 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 270, 272-3, fig. 7, 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]
Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 123, 124-25, pl. 138, NJ18 C83 S56 (YCBA) [YCBA]