Frascati, Near Rome, 1819, Watercolor, pen and ink, sheet: 9 1/16 x 12 9/16 in. (23 x cm), Drawings, William Cowen (British

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Frascati, Near Rome, 1819, Watercolor, pen and ink, sheet: 9 1/16 x 12 9/16 in. (23 x 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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