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Human-Made Object
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watercolor
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drawing
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Drawing & Watercolor
Tassisudon
Tassisudan
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "Tassisudon | House in which the embassy was lodged"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "J52"
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.283
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110010195
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)
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Sheet
18 1/8 × 25 7/8 inches (46 × 65.7 cm)
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819, British
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/63504
Samuel Davis
Davis Samuel, 1760–1819
Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
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British
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18th century
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and gouache on very thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
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exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
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Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
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New Haven
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
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publication event
Michael Aris, ^Views of medieval Bhutan : The diary and drawings of Samuel Davis^, Smithsonian Institution Press, London and Washington, DC, 1982, pp. 84, 87, no. 24, DS485 .B503 D38 1982 Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Michael Aris
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Aris Michael
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Author
Smithsonian Institution Press
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Smithsonian Institution Press
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Publisher
1982
1982
1982
London and Washington, DC
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publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 96, no. 78, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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Forrester Gillian
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Author
Morna O'Neill
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O'Neill Morna
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Author
Kim Sloan
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Sloan Kim
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
2001
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New Haven, CT
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
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In his attempts to consolidate British East India Company control in northern India, the Governor-Genreal warren Hastings sent two missions through Bhutan to Tibet. The first was in 1774; the second, in 1783, was headed by Samuel Turner. Its "draughtsman and surveyor" was Samuel Davis , who had arrived in India in 1780. One hundred and forty-four of Davis's drawings of Bhutan from this expedition, both working studies and finished watercolors, are in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Of Davis's work Turner wrote: "His subjects are indeed, in themselves, are not more remarkable for their grandeur and beauty, that for the judgement, fidelity, and taste with which he has seized on and recorded their features." Turner has nine of the drawings engraved as illustrations to his An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet; Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet in 1800.
Tassisudon (Tashichö Dzong) was the site of the Bhutanese summer capital. According to a narrative of the 1774 mission, the palace had three thousand residents, all men and a third of them Buddhist monks. In his account Turner commented on his party's accommodation, the subject of this watercolor by Davis: "Our habitation, which was within a stone's throw of the palace, was extremely commodious, and well adapted to our use." --- ---
Scott Wilcox --- ---
Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. pg. 96 cat. no. 78
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Published catalog entry
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Scott Wilcox
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Author
2001
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architectural subject
Michael Aris, Views of medieval Bhutan : The diary and drawings of Samuel Davis, Smithsonian Institution Press, London and Washington, DC, 1982, pp. 84, 87, no. 24, DS485 .B503 D38 1982 Oversize (YCBA)
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related to
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 96, no. 78, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Item
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art