Winchelsea

Maker Albert Goodwin (British, 1845-1932)

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Date1873

Mediumwatercolor and body color

Dimensionssheet/ image: 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (12.1 x 17.1 cm.) mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.)

SignedSignature; with monogram & Date; AG [18]73

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Label TextThis view of Winchelsea, a town in south-west England, displays Goodwin’s great skill as a watercolorist. Though small in size, the image appears to capture a great expanse of landscape, achieved through a low view point that hovers somewhere just above the posts near the water-filled ditch. Using a bright, clear Pre-Raphaelite palette, Goodwin captures intricate details such as the flying birds, barely more than single dots of pigment, with meticulous precision of touch. The artist was a protégé of John Ruskin, whose insistence on precise naturalism clearly informs early landscapes such as this.

Status

Not on view

Object number89.31

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