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John Robert Cozens

Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno, 1790

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Overall: 36.6 x 52.7 cm (14 7/16 x 20 3/4 in.)
overall (mat size): 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in honor of Paul Mellon by the Patrons' Permanent Fund with additional support from Dick and Ritchie Scaife, Catherine Mellon Conover, Rachel Mellon Walton, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Walton and an anonymous donor

Accession Number

1992.19.1

Artists / Makers

John Robert Cozens (artist) British, 1752 - 1799

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Provenance

Dr. Thomas Calvert Girtin, Great Britain; George W. Girtin, Great Britain; Thomas Girtin, Great Britain; Tom Girtin, Great Britain, 1991; (Leger Galleries Ltd., London, 1992); purchase 1992 by NGA.

Associated Names

Girtin, George W.
Girtin, Thomas
Girtin, Thomas Calvert, Dr.
Girtin, Tom, Mr.
Leger Galleries Ltd., The

Exhibition History

1906: London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1906, no. 70.

1922: Drawings by John Robert Cozens, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1922-1923, no. 42, repro. pl. XXIII.

1934: Exhibition of British Art, c.1000-1860, Royal Academy, London, 1934.

1953: Early Watercolours from the Collection of Thomas Girtin, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1953, no. 20.

1954: European Masters of the Eighteenth Century. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, 1954-1955, no. 633.

1958: Exhibition of Early English Watercolours, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1958, no. 24.

1962: The Girtin Collection, Royal Academy, London, 1962, no. 18.

1971: Watercolours by John Robert Cozens, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1971, no. 62, reprod.

1992: British Landscape Painting, Leger Galleries, London, 1992, no. 32.

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 43.

1993: The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993, no. 94.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 198-199.

2001: Paysages d'Italie: Les peintres du plein air (1780-1830), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001, no. 27, repro. (shown only in Paris).

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1933: Binyon, Lawrence. English Watercolours. London, 1933, 54, reprod. facing p. 44.

1935: Bell, C.F., and T. Girtin. "The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens," Walpole Society 23, 1935, no. 276 iii, repro. pl. XXXIIIa.

1952: Oppé, A.P. Alexander & John Robert Cozens. 1952, 152.

1996: Klonk, Charlotte. Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. New Haven and London, 1996: 31, fig. 7.

2004: Christie's, London. "British Art on Paper," sale catalogue, 18 November 2004, 47, under no. 57.