Artist
Alexander Cozens(British, 1717–1786)British, 1717–1786
CultureBritish
Titles
- A Castle in a Landscape
Datec. 1770
MediumBrush and ink with gray and yellow wash on tinted laid paper, laid down on artist's wash-line mount
DimensionsSheet: 3 7/8 × 7 in. (9.8 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Marie and John Glover, and Ann and Dan Ahuero
Object number2018.237
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryCastles in the Air: Drawings by Alexander Cozens and Victor Hugo, Spink-Leger Pictures, London, 1999, cat. 3. (as Castle in a Landscape) (exh. cat. by Lowell Libson).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink, lower right of artist's wash-line mount: Alex.r Cozens. [cursive].
Verso: Inscribed in ink on artist's wash-line mount: "57" and "lot 323--three."
Verso: Inscribed in ink on artist's wash-line mount: "57" and "lot 323--three."
Watermark on drawing sheet, vertical at center right: unidentified watermark (letters?) [conservation needed]; Watermark on mount, bottom center: Partial watermark of a crown [conservation needed]
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