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John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British, Bristol Hot Wells, ca. 1773
- Title:
Bristol Hot Wells
- Date:
- ca. 1773
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink on thin, smooth, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, rough, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 x 8 7/8 inches (12.7 x 22.5 cm), Mount: 5 x 9 inches (12.7 x 22.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink upper right: "Bristol | Hot Wells."; in pen and brown ink upper left: "1 Sun misty But ye body of it very bright | 2 very Tend.r from ye Sun | 3 ye edges of ye hills faintly mark'd all in mist Pretty warm but greyish | 4 green field in ye sun | Tend.r Grey upon it"; Inscribed on back in graphite lower right: "<B 1979. 29. 1> | IR 337/1"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2808
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cityscape | clouds | hills | houses | lakes | reflections
- Associated Places:
- Bristol | England
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9192
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Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 10, 38, no. 83, pl. 32, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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