Mountain Landscape with a Hollow, c. 1770

Not on View

Medium

brush drawing in brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 23 x 30.3 cm (9 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
overall (mount): 33.3 x 43.3 cm (13 1/8 x 17 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.68.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in gray ink on mount: Alex. Cozens.; lower left verso typed on sheet glued to mount: Cozens. Landscape. Blaker.; cCvin graphite: L+ 74-L3..7.0 the pair; uRr //in gray ink: 13

Provenance

J.P. Heseltine (Lugt 1508); Hugh Blaker; (Leicester Galleries, London); purchased March 1948 by Sir Kenneth Clark

Associated Names

Morton Morris & Company Ltd.

Exhibition History

1985: Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1987: English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.

1993: The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 84.

Bibliography

1984: Sotheby's (Clark Sale), London: 7/5/84, 193.

1993: Wilton, Andrew and Anne Lyles. The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993: no. 84.

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 191, fig. 1.