drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1867,1012.4
- Description
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Drawing from an album, Landscape; a view of from an olive-grown hill over undulating country, with buildings at intervals, a glimpse left of a winding stream, and in the distance right a line of hills
Brush drawing in grey wash, with pen and black ink and graphite
- Production date
- 1746 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 372 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album of drawings (1867,1012.1-52) made by Alexander Cozens during his visit to Italy c.1746. A note in his hand, formerly attached to the cover of the album (now mounted separately, 1867,1012.1*) describes the subsequent history of the drawings: 'Alexander Cozens, in London, Author of these Drawings, lost them & many more, in Germany by their dropping from his Saddle when he was riding in his way from Rome to England, in the year 1746. / John Cozens his Son being at Florence in the year 1776 purchaced them. / When he arrived at London in the year 1779 he delivered the Drawings to his Father.'
The volume is recorded in the Keeper's report to the Trustees, October 1867: "From Mrs Smith 10.10.0 [pounds] a volume of 51 pen sketches by A. Cozens. Mentioned by Leslie and Redgrave (A Century of Painters, 1866, I, pp. 377-8) in their respective wks'. Mrs Thomas Smith was the daughter of Juliet Ann Roberts, the sister of Alexander.
For a summary discussion and literature on Cozens's time in Italy, see the curatorial comment for 1867,1012.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1012.4