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View from inside a cave

Watercolour
1778 (made)
Artist/Maker
Cozens, John Robert (artist)
Place of origin
Rome (made)

Watercolour entitled 'View from inside a cave: The Entrance to the Catacomb, Rome'. Signed, dated and inscribed with title.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Grand Tour
Topographical Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
Titles
  • View from inside a cave (popular title)
  • The Entrance to the Catacomb, Rome (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Watercolour
Watercolour Painting
Brief description
Watercolour entitled 'View from inside a cave: The Entrance to the Catacomb, Rome' by John Robert Cozens. British School, Rome, 1778.
Physical description
Watercolour entitled 'View from inside a cave: The Entrance to the Catacomb, Rome'. Signed, dated and inscribed with title.
Dimensions
  • From catalogue height: 37.7cm
  • From catalogue width: 50.6cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes. Current frame (2014) - 577 x 783 x 40 mm.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Jn Cozens. Rome 1778 (Signed)
  • The Entrance to the Catacomb, Rome (Inscribed)
  • Entrance to the Catacomb - Rome (Inscribed in a later hand on the mount)
Credit line
Bought from the Hugh Phillips Bequest
Object history
Bought from the Hugh Phillips Bequest.

Provenance: Lolo A Williams; Edward Williams, by descent; lot 116, 17.11.1983; Leger Galleries, from whom purchased by the Museum.
Subjects depicted
Caves
Catacombs
Place depicted
Rome (City)
Association
Italy
Bibliographic references
  • Bell, C. F. and Girtin, T. The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens, Walpole Society, XXIII, 1934-5; Additions, 1947, no.134, Drawing III, p.8.
  • Lolo A Williams Early English Watercolours 1952, p.81, 82.
  • Kim Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens: The Poetry of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1986, cat. no. 149, illus. pg. 133 as 'Cavern in the Campagna'
  • Evans, Mark et al. Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Japan : Brain Trust, 2002
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.6-1984

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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