Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Samuel Davis, 1757–1819, British

Title:

Tassisudon

Date:

1783

Medium:

Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and gouache on very thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "Tassisudon | House in which the embassy was lodged"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "J52"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.283

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

architectural subject

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

Publications:

Michael Aris, Views of medieval Bhutan : The diary and drawings of Samuel Davis, Smithsonian Institution Press, London and Washington, DC, 1982, pp. 84, 87, no. 24, DS485 .B503 D38 1982 Oversize (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 96, no. 78, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13137