print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 2010,7072.14
- Description
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Landscape with a ruined building; smoke issuing from chimney, clouds added to sky
Etching, with graphite additions, trimmed and mounted on an album page numbered '2' with 2010,7072.8 to 15
- Production date
- 1760-1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 550 millimetres (album sheet)
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Height: 60 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 375 millimetres
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Width: 70 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This print is probably associated with a small drawing book of objects for landscapes (see 1917,1208.2499 to 2501), which were apparently etched by William Austin after originals by Alexander Cozens who was probably responsible for the pencil additions here. Further proofs for this series are also in this album (2010,7072.8 to15). They are closely related in composition to examples in his late 1760s publication, 'Various Species of Composition in Nature' (see Kim Sloan, 'Alexander and John Robert Cozens', Yale, 1986, pp. 49-60). For the Aynscombe album of which this is a part see 2010,7072.1 to 51 and 'A Cozens Album in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth', by Paul Joyner and Kim Sloan, Walpole Society, LVII, 1993-1994.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- The album probably belonged to Miss Charlotte Ayscombe and passed through her descendants to Major O. J. De Salis who consigned it to Christie's in 1982. At that point, 8 drawings by Alexander and John Robert Cozens were removed from the album and sold separately (lots 5-9); the album, lot 10, was purchased by Christopher Lennox-Boyd who removed 61 etchings by Waterloo before consigned it for sale in 1991 when it was bought it, and again in 2008 when it was purchased by Alec Stirling (BM was underbidder). Six drawings were removed before it was purchased from him by BM.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7072.14