Object number1864.1.84

Netley Abbey by Torchlight

Date1854 / 1856

Artist John Edmond Buckley (English, 1820 - 1884)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor and gouache, with stippling, on thick cream wove paper

DimensionsMatted: 16 x 22 in. (40.64 x 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 14 7/8 in. (28.73 x 37.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (LR): J. E. Buckley 1854 or 1856

Bibliography1869 Catalog, #386; Landscapes of Retrospection (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1999), p. 99 repr.ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon

Vassar Exhibitions

Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial

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);

Poughkeepsie, NY, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection," May 8- July 26, 2009.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial," April 11 - June 29, 2014.

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