Frascati, Near Rome, 1819, Watercolor, pen and ink, sheet: 9 1/16 x 12 9/16 in. (23 x 31.9 cm), Drawings, William Cowen (British, Rotheram 1797–1861 Brompton), This delicately painted watercolor, made when Cowen was twenty-two, demonstrates the fresh vision British artists brought to landscape when they returned to the Continent after the Napoleonic wars. Frascati, a town twelve miles southeast of Rome, offered the artist a prospect of the Alban hills framed by the Villa Lancellotti at right, and cathedral of San Pietro Apostolo at left
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Frascati, Rome, 1819, Watercolor, pen, ink, sheet, 9 1/16 x 12 9/16, 23 31.9 cm, Drawings, William Cowen, British, Rotheram, 1797–1861, Brompton, delicately, painted, watercolor, Cowen, twenty-two, demonstrates, fresh vision, artists, landscape, returned, Continent, Napoleonic wars, town twelve, miles, southeast, offered, artist, prospect, Alban hills, framed, Villa Lancellotti, right, cathedral, San Pietro, Apostolo, left
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