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Creator:
Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Title:

Harvest Time: Cumberland

Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 17 inches (16.8 x 43.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "[...]"; in graphite, center: "3017"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2578
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
clouds | fields | forest | harvest | hay | hills | landscape | mountains | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
Cumberland | England | United Kingdom
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8570
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Peter DeWint trained as an engraver and portrait painter, but under the influence of John Varley he switched to landscape painting in watercolors. His generalizing approach to scenery finds its origins in Girtin's picturesque, both artists ordering the land into patterns of color, light, and shade moving into expansive horizons. To this end DeWint generally employed just two brushes, both broad but one old and blunted, the other fresh and with a sharp point. With the older brush he would lay in sweeping washes of dilute color and then work over the details with the pointed tip of his newer brush.

Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 174-5, no. IV.29, pl. 149, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 5, no. 23, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 107, no. 189, pl. CLIII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 136-38, no. 59, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]


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