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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855, British, Richmond Hill, 1830

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Creator:

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855

Title:

Richmond Hill

Date:

1830

Medium:

Watercolor with scraping on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 6 5/8 × 12 inches (16.8 × 30.5 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in brush and gray and brown ink, lower left: "Copley Fielding | 1830"; inscribed on back in graphite, center right: "Richmond Hill"; in graphite, lower center: "Dated 1830"

Signed and dated in brush and gray and brown ink, lower left: "Copley Fielding | 1830"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.5895

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9489

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The sweeping vista of the Thames from Richmond Hill near London had been a staple subject for landscape artists since the end of the seventeenth century. Rather than following earlier pictorial or literary representations of the view, however, Copley Fielding's Richmond Hill has all the hallmarks of a plein air sketch made from direct observation of nature, a lesson learnt from John Varley. By doing so he has injected a vivid freshness into a tired subject. In 1825 Eugène Delacroix visited London and joined Copley Fielding on a sketching tour, which led him to begin his own experiments in watercolor heavily dependent on the English artist's example.

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]

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, p. 144, no. 62, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

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