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The goatherd: View on the Galleria di Sopra above the Lake of Albano

The goatherd: View on the Galleria di Sopra above the Lake of Albano
1778

Medium
watercolour over traces of pencil on paper on cardboard with artist’s washline borders
Measurements
43.9 × 55.0 cm (image and sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Alban Hills, Lazio, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bell & Girtin 153
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink (on mount) l.l.: John Cozens. 1778
Accession Number
1209-3
Department
International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1921
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Labour, Industry and Machinery Landscapes Nature
Subjects (specific)
Castel Gandolfo (inhabited place) dirt roads forests (plant communities) goat (genus) herding Italy (nation) shepherds wooded landscapes
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)