Artist
John Robert Cozens (British, 1752–1797)British, 1752–1797
CultureBritish
Titles
- London and the Thames from Greenwich
Date1792
Place depictedLondon, United Kingdom
MediumWatercolor over graphite on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 14 3/8 × 20 5/8 in. (36.5 × 52.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Amy M. Purvis
Object number2016.345
Not on view
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Agnew's, Annual Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings, 1957, no. 32.
Francis Hawcroft, Watercolours by John Robert Cozens, London 1971, p. 34, under no. 9; Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, exh. cat., New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 1980, p. 51, under no. 137.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in watercolor, below image, left: Jn. Cozens 1792
Recto of handcolored mount: Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: J.R. Cozens 1792
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto of handcolored mount: Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: J.R. Cozens 1792
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Signed in watercolor, below image, left: Jn. Cozens 1792
Recto of handcolored mount: Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: J.R. Cozens 1792
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto of handcolored mount: Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: J.R. Cozens 1792
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: [none]
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