Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured,
beige, wove paper
Materials
graphite scratching out watercolor
Inscriptions
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso, center: "This old fashioned foreground [...]
is now | emphatically called the [...] Bridge as those | who can only compose in
that way, can only | get into the landscape over it -- besides the | nature of water
colours have real depth for it. | not so | Let these be gradations and opposition
and | there let your emphasis tell - not too strongly; but | expressively and determinately.
| Varley -"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso, center left: "Imitation of Turner";
inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "17"
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, lower right: "[?]B 1814"
Subjects
architectural subject landscape marine art
Dimensions
Width: 21.3 centimeters Height: 27.5 centimeters
Accession #
B1981.25.2755
Object #
20065
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
