John Robert Cozens
View of Vietri and Raito, Italy

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Artist John Robert Cozens British, 1752–1797

CultureBritish

Titles

View of Vietri and Raito, Italy

Datec. 1783

Place depictedRaito, Italy

Place depictedVietri sul Mare, 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 Dena M. Woodall

Object number2017.283

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Prints and Drawings

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DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceWilliam Beckford (1760-1844); [London, Christie’s, 10 April 1805, lot 55, described as “a capital drawing” (5 gms)]; [London, Phillps, anonymous sale, 23 March 1981, lot 102]; [Martyn Gregory, London], as of 1981; purchased by Professor Ian Craft; to his descendants; [London, Sotheby’s, Old Master and British Drawings Including Property from the Descendants of Walter Brandt, July 7, 2011, lot 325]; [London, Christie’s, Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours, 5 July 2017, lot 103]; sold to MFAH, July 2017.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Academia Italiana della Arti, In the shadow of Vesuvius, views of Naples from Baroque to
Romanticism 1631 – 1839, 27 October -27 November 1990, p. 117, no cat. no., illustrated p. 69.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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Watermark, right: [Britannia with lamb and flag, similar to Churchhill 456]
Watermark, left: [unidentified]

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