About the Artwork
View of Penzance and Mounts Bay
1799
T. Medland (Artist) English Burney and Gold (Publisher) English
Etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper
image: 4 7/8 x 9 in. 12.3 x 22.8 cm sheet: 6 x 9 3/8 in. 15.2 x 23.8 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.124
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate, lower left: Published by Burney & Gold, June 1, 1799; faintly visible, also lower left: ( ) Pocock ( ); lower right: T. Medland sc.; center bottom margin: View of Penzance and Mounts Bay.
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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein
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T. Medland, View of Penzance and Mounts Bay, 1799, Etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.124.
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