Landscape on a Bay
19th century
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (23.5 x 36.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Accession Number
54.573.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Landscape on a Bay" a delicate 19th-century watercolor to Paul Sandby or an anonymous British artist, capturing the serene beauty of a coastal scene. Measuring 9 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches, this intimate sheet exemplifies the British tradition of landscape drawing, where artists turned to nature for inspiration amid the Romantic era's emphasis on the sublime and picturesque. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as part of The Elisha Whittelsey Collection (acquired in 1954), it invites viewers to ponder a tranquil bay framed by gentle hills and shimmering waters. ...
About the Artist
Paul Sandby|Anonymous, British, 19th century
Paul Sandby (1731–1809), an English painter and draughtsman born in Nottingham, is celebrated as the father of English watercolour landscape painting. He learned drawing from his older brother Thomas Sandby, a prominent architect and artist, and followed him into the Military Drawing Office at the Tower of London, where they honed their skills as military draughtsmen. In 1747, Paul accompanied Tho...