Object number1883.2.4
Romantic England, Richmond
Portfolio/SeriesFourth in the series History of England
Date1882
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833-1905)
CultureAmerican
MediumWatercolor
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 x 16 1/8 in. (26 x 41 cm)
Mount: 15 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. (40.5 x 55.5 cm)
Mount: 15 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. (40.5 x 55.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elias Lyman Magoon
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower left edge in watercolor: Wm.T.Richards.
InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower left edge in watercolor: 1882.
BibliographyFoshay, Ella M., and Sally Mills. All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes from the Collection of Elias Lyman Magoon. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1983, p. 83;
Humanizing landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection. (2000). Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2000, cat. no. 50, p. 78ProvenanceCommissioned by Dr. E. L. Magoon and presented to Vassar CollegeVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryThe Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 5 - December 20, 2000;Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY January 27-March 15, 2000
Label TextIn 1882, the American painter William Trost Richards completed a series of seven watercolors featuring notable English landmarks, each representing a distinct historical or allegorical theme. Richards had toured and sketched these sites during his travels in Britain from 1878 to 1880. Elias Magoon, a dedicated collector of Richards’ work and one of Vassar’s founding trustees, commissioned these paintings and later donated them to the college.
DescriptionA depiction of an elevated landscape above and forested valley with a river running through it. Within the treed landscape in the foreground sits a woman and a young child crawling in the grass, while in the midground a cluster of deer gather.
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