View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome

View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome, 1782-83, Watercolor over traces of graphite, sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 1/2 in. (25.3 x 36.8 cm), Drawings, John Robert Cozens (British, London 1752-1797 London), Like many eighteenth-century British artists, John Robert Cozens traveled to Italy to sketch the landscape. Working en plein air-typically in graphite or black chalk-he captured the essential forms, then colored his sketches with watercolor washes either on the spot, in his Italian lodgings, or sometimes, upon his return to Britain

1780s Cozens Lante

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