John Robert Cozens
View of Vietri and Raito, Italy

CultureBritish
Titles
  • View of Vietri and Raito, Italy
Datec. 1783
Place depictedVietri sul Mare, Italy
Place depictedRaito, Italy
MediumWatercolor over graphite on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 15 3/4 × 20 1/4 in. (40 × 51.5 cm)
Image: 10 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (26 × 37.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dr. Dena M. Woodall and Skip Fowler
Object number2017.283
Non exposé

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ProvenanceWilliam Beckford (1760–1844); [Christie’s, London, April 10, 1805, lot 55 (described as “a capital drawing”)]; [anonymous sale, Phillips, Son & Neale, London, Fine Watercolours & Drawings, March 23, 1981, lot 102 (as A View of Vietri and Raito)]; [Martyn Gregory, London, by 1981]; purchased by Professor Ian Craft; by descent; Sotheby’s, London, An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection, July 14, 2010, lot 61]; Sotheby’s, London, Old Master and British Drawings Including Property from the Descendants of Walter Brandt, July 7, 2011, lot 325]; Christie’s, London, Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours, July 5, 2017, lot 103]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition HistoryIn the Shadow of Vesuvius, Views of Naples from Baroque to Romanticism 1631-1839, London, Academia Italiana della Arti, 1990, 117, illus. 69 (as Evening at Raito with Vietri Beyond) (exh. cat. by Silvia Cassani).
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Watermark: Britannia with lamb and flag

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