id:			159769
accession number:	1997.137
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.137
updated:		2025-02-09 05:22:46.980000

Italian Landscape, c. 1790–92. John Robert Cozens (British, 1752–1797). Watercolor over graphite; sheet: 48.7 x 66.9 cm (19 3/16 x 26 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1997.137

title:				Italian Landscape
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creation date:			c. 1790–92
creation date earliest:		1790
creation date latest:		1792
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	England, London, 18th century
technique:	watercolor over graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* John Robert Cozens (British, 1752–1797)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 48.7 x 66.9 cm (19 3/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Watercolour Drawings by J.R. Cozens and J.S. Cotman. </em>Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (October 2 - October 30, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-10-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Coronation Exhibition</em>. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. Eden
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	Mr. Deverell
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	Mrs. Deverell
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	William Eden
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			* <div><!--block-->According to old label attached to the backboard written in William Eden's hand.</div>
			
			
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	Norman D. Newell, New York, NY
	date: ?-1979
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	(his sale, Christie's, London, December 13, 1979, no. 25)
	date: 1979
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	Private Collection
	date: after 1979-before 1996
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	(sale, Sotheby's, London, November 14, 1996, no. 59)
	date: 1996
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			* <div><!--block-->As The Property of a Lady.</div>
			
			
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	(Spink-Leger Pictures, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: probably 1996-1997
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1997-
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CITATIONS

	
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	Bell, C.F. and T. Girtin. "The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens." <em>Walpole Society</em> 23 (1935): 1-80.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 80, no. 439-II
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	<em>Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by J.R. Cozens and J.S. Cotman.</em> Exh. Cat. Manchester: Whitworth Art Gallery, 1937.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 76
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	<em>Coronation Exhibition</em>. Exh. Cat. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Laing Art Gallery, 1953.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 31
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major African Sculpture, Recent Mark Tansey Painting, and Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” September 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4152

	DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 186-87, 294, no. 76; Reproduced: p. 187
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	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 42-43, 144, no. 10; Reproduced: p. 43
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