Object number1864.1.223

Chepstow Castle

Date1788

Artist John Webber (English, 1751 - 1793)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor and pencil

DimensionsSheet: 11 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (30.16 x 39.05 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (LR): J. Webber 1788

BibliographyLandscapes of Retrospection (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1999), p.15 repr. 1869 Catalog, # 358ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon
Exhibition History"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996.

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Landscapes of Retrospection," October 15 - December 19, 1999;

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, January 25 - March 25, 2001;

The Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 9 - September 2, 2001;

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 9 - April 7, 2002 (see below)

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