Alexander Cozens
approximately 1717-1786
A River Between Hills
ca. 1785
9 1/16 x 11 7/8 inches (230 x 302 mm)
Brush and black ink wash over graphite on paper, varnished.
2017.42
Thaw Collection.
Notes
Watermark: horn within a shield surmounted by a crown, with letters C(?) R below (similar to Heawood 2752-58).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed beneath lower left edge of drawing presumably on the artist's mount, in the same gray ink as the framing lines, "Alex[superscript letter r] Cozens", and in graphite at upper center "10."
Associated names
Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Agnew, Hugh L., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Agnew, Hugh L., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 63, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 25.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 25.
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Century Drawings
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