Terrace at Wentworth Castle
November 1848
Medium
Watercolor over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
19.4 × 28 cm (7 11/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115208
Art Historical Context
**Terrace at Wentworth Castle** *Elizabeth Murray, November 1848* Watercolor over traces of on cream wove paper 19.4 × 28 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings. Step onto the elegant terrace of Wentworth Castle through Elizabeth Murray's delicate watercolor, created in November 1848. This artist, known for her meticulous botanical illustrations and landscapes, captures the serene grandeur of this English stately home in South Yorkshire. Wentworth Castle, with its sweeping gardens and neoclassical architecture, was a of 18th-century aristocratic life, and Murray's intimate view...
About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was a pioneering American painter whose exuberant, sculptural canvases redefined the boundaries of abstraction in the late 20th century. Born on September 6, 1940, in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents—a lawyer father and a mother who aspired to commercial art—she showed an early passion for drawing cartoons, nurtured by her mother's encouragement and high school art te...