View of Bath
Medium
graphite
Dimensions
Overall: 18.8 x 28.9 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.) support: 25 x 34.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1514
Art Historical Context
**View of Bath** (1916) by Sirhead Bone captures the elegant Georgian architecture of Bath,, in a delicate graphite drawing. Measuring 18.8 x 28.9 cm on a larger support sheet, this intimate work showcases Bone's mastery of line and tone, rendered with the precision of a seasoned etcher adapting to pencil. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection, it the artist's topographical style, blending acute observation with atmospheric depth. Created amid World War I, when Bone was transitioning from commercial etching to official war artistry, this piece offers a serene counterpoi...
About the Artist
Sir Muirhead Bone
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), born David Muirhead Bone in Partick, Glasgow, to a journalist father and descended from a family of printers, showed early artistic promise. Apprenticed at fourteen first as a porcelain painter and then as an architect's draughtsman for four years, he honed his draughtsmanship while attending evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art under teachers Archibald Kay a...