A View of Lower Rydal Falls, Cumbria
1837
Medium
Watercolor, pen and ink, gray and white heightening, on beige paper
Dimensions
sheet: 20 9/16 x 14 5/8 in. (52.3 x 37.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2011
Accession Number
2011.564.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Fearnley · 1802–1842
Thomas Fearnley was a leading Norwegian Romantic painter, born on 27 December 1802 in Frederikshald (now Halden) to merchant Thomas Fearnley and Maren Sophie Paus, whose family belonged to the prominent Paus lineage of Telemark. His grandfather had immigrated from Yorkshire, England. Sent at age five to live with an aunt in Christiania (Oslo), he first studied drawing at the Royal Drawing School f...