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Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859
after Meindert Hobbema, 1638–1709
Title:

The Poplar Avenue, after Hobbema

Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 14 3/4 × 20 3/16 inches (37.5 × 51.3 cm), Sheet: 11 3/16 × 16 1/4 inches (28.4 × 41.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed in pen, with brown ink, lower left: "David Cox"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2006.4
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
avenue | city | cityscape | fields | horse (animal) | landscape | men | perspective | riding | road | steeple | trees | vines | worker
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:55882
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Meindert Hobbema's Avenue at Middelharnis (fig. 101) was in Sir Robert Peel's collection by 1834. Cox probably would have seen the painting when it was exhibited at the British Institution in London in 1835 (no. 19), although Solly reports that Cox obtained special permission from Sir Robert to copy it.1 Actually, Cox's watercolor is not a copy but a paraphrase. Although he incorporates most of the elements of Hobbema's original, Cox makes the countryside appear more expansive, in line with his own taste for flat, open landscapes. He includes the figure to the right tending vines, but Hobbema's hunter and dog walking down the avenue toward the viewer are replaced by Cox with his frequent motif of a mounted figure riding away from the viewer.

Scott Wilcox

Scott Wilcox, Sun, wind, and rain : the art of David Cox, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, pg. 190, cat. no. 62, NJ18 .C829 W542 + Oversize (YCBA)

Sun, Wind, and Rain - The Art of David Cox (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 2009-01-31 - 2009-05-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Sun, Wind, and Rain - The Art of David Cox (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-10-16 - 2009-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Art : The Definitive Visual History, DK Publishing, New York, 2018, p. 20, NX440 .A785 2018 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Scott Wilcox, Sun, wind, and rain : the art of David Cox, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, pp. 30-32, 190, no. 62, fig. 21, NJ18 .C829 W542 + Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]


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