A second drawing done from the same blot, 1785

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series Title

A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (plate 42)

Medium

lift-ground aquatint and mezzotint in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 22.8 × 30.7 cm (9 × 12 1/16 in.)
plate: 24 × 31.7 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

sheet: 24.5 × 32 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1987.65.1

Artists / Makers

Alexander Cozens (artist) British, c. 1717 - 1786

William Pether (artist) British, 1739 - 1821

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Alexr. Cozens Invt.; lower right in plate: Wm. Pether Fecit; lower center in plate: Published as the Act directs by A.Cozens July 20th.1785.; upper right in plate: 42; vertical along left edge verso in graphite: Randall Davies (Lugt 2903a); upper right verso in graphite: 509

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 199, fig. 6.