Drawings

Keswick

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1816
Accession number: 59.55.83
Maker: Sir George Howland Beaumont(Opens in new tab) (British, 1753–1827)
Dimensions: image/sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (11.4 × 18.4 cm.) mat: 12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.8 × 48.3 cm.)
Medium: pencil and wash
Description: Graphite inscription on back: Keswick from the bottom of Cockshut hill - thursday september 3rd 1816 Stamp on left side of verso: DG Graphite inscription on right center of mat: HHH Graphite inscription on lower right corner of mat: Sir george beaumont 1753-1827 / inscribed on back "Keswick from the bottom of Cockshut hill - thursday september 3rd 1816" / This drawing was one of a number of Sir George Beaumont's sketches given by Lady Beaumont on his death in 1827 to Elizabeth Susan Percy
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gilbert Davis Collection
Department: European Art
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