Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso]
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Artist
James Ward(British, 1769–1859)British, 1769–1859
CultureBritish
Titles
- Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso]
Datec. 1820
MediumWatercolor on two sheets of wove paper, mounted to thick wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 4 1/2 × 14 1/16 in. (11.5 × 35.7 cm)
Artist's Wash Mount: 6 3/8 × 15 7/8 in. (16.2 × 40.3 cm)
Artist's Wash Mount: 6 3/8 × 15 7/8 in. (16.2 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Beechie Chew Hutcheson Kampmann
Object number2024.17
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryFortieth Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1960, cat. 56.
"Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond" The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, January 12–July 6, 2025
Published References Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2025) pp. 104 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in brown ink, bottom left corner: JWD RA
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, annotations of colors, lower right center: ocre // R // a...by fo...[?]
Verso: Inscribed: [illegible] French paper [cursive]
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, annotations of colors, lower right center: ocre // R // a...by fo...[?]
Verso: Inscribed: [illegible] French paper [cursive]
Recto: Signed in brown ink, bottom left corner: j WD. RA
James Ward late in life went through his drawings and marked them with this form of his signature that uses the letters “RA” to make an anagram of “J. Ward”
James Ward late in life went through his drawings and marked them with this form of his signature that uses the letters “RA” to make an anagram of “J. Ward”
Verso of wove mount: Stamped in black ink, bottom left corner: collector's mark of WA Brandt
Catalogue raisonnéNone
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