FDA-D.1691-2023
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1691-2023
Object type
Identification
Title
Harvesting in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Title Type
Common name
Description
Painted landscape view, with fields in the foreground and hills in the background
Comments
While studying under printmaker John Raphael Smith (c.1751–1812) from 1802 to 1806, de Wint met painter William Hilton (1786-1839), who had moved to London from Lincoln. De Wint first visited Lincoln in 1806 and there fell in love with Hilton’s younger sister, Harriet, whom he married in 1810. The de Wints and Hilton initially lived together at 10 Percy Street, London. However, in 1814 the couple bought a house in Drury Lane, Lincoln, living between there and their London home. De Wint was especially fond of the Lincolnshire Wolds and made numerous watercolour landscape views in the area. This example is thought to have been made near the Bluestone Heath Road, a prehistoric trackway which joins the villages of South Ormsby and Stenigot.
Description
Content (place)
England
Dimensions
height (actual size): 105mm
width (actual size): 372mm
width (actual size): 372mm
Material
paper
watercolour
watercolour
Materials & techniques note
Watercolour on paper
Production
Person
De Wint, Peter, 1784 - 1849 (Artist)
Date
c.1820
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: '18th & 19th Century British Drawings and Watercolours', Sotheby’s, London, 19 November 1992 (Lot 98), as ‘Harvesters in a Landscape’; Agnew's, London 2003; from whom purchased by Richard Amis
Exhibited: 'Watercolours & Drawings; 130th Annual Exhibition', Agnew’s, London, 5 to 28 March 2003, catalogue number 42; 'An Etonian Collector: The Richard Amis Bequest', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 November 2023 to 24 March 2024
Exhibited: 'Watercolours & Drawings; 130th Annual Exhibition', Agnew’s, London, 5 to 28 March 2003, catalogue number 42; 'An Etonian Collector: The Richard Amis Bequest', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 November 2023 to 24 March 2024
