Album of landscape drawings by Mason, Gilpin, and Holland [art original].

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Title: Album of landscape drawings by Mason, Gilpin, and Holland [art original].
Contributor: Holland, John, -1777, artist.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804, artist.
Mason, William, 1725-1797, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
Description: Title assigned by cataloger.
Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
Provenance: Acquired by purchase by W.S. Lewis, August 1939 from Robert P. Paterson, December 1949.
Extent: 75 drawings in 1 album : 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Landscape drawings
Wash drawings
Watercolors
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Albums (books)
Material: watercolors, wash drawings ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
Subjects: Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Great Britain > Pictorial works
19th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Album of Drawings by Mason, Gilpin, and Holland. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.