View of a lake or river with a sailboat
1820–70
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and wash, over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 2 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. (7.3 x 12 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Walter Schatzki, 1959
Accession Number
59.532.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), a pioneering Scottish artist best known for his early photographic portraits in collaboration with Robert Adamson began his career as a painter and draftsman. This intimate drawing, *View of a lake or with a sailboat*, a serene 19th-century landscape, sketched during one of Hill's travels or plein air studies between 1820 and 1870. The composition features a tranquil body of water dominated by a lone sailboat, evoking Romantic fascination with nature's quiet majesty amid Scotland's rugged scenery. Executed on a modest sheet (2 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.), the work employ...
About the Artist
David Octavius Hill · 1802–1870
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer, and arts administrator whose pioneering photography partnership with Robert Adamson from 1843 to 1847 transformed the medium into an art form. Born in Perth and trained in Edinburgh, Hill established himself as a landscape painter and became secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy, a position he held for nearly forty years. His ...