FDA-D.215-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.215-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Figures by a Harbour
Family Outside a Croft in Connemara, Galway
Family Outside a Croft in Connemara, Galway
Title Type
Common name
Previous title
Previous title
Comments
A version of this composition is the subject placed on the easel in centre of the artist's picture of his Study. the west coast of Ireland, particularly around Killery Bay, is full of small piers providing some shelter for boats, necessary for a life spent partly farming and partly fishing and transporting seaweed.
Other number
CL 567
Description
Content (place)
Ireland
Dimensions
height (actual size): 360mm
width (actual size): 490mm
width (actual size): 490mm
Dimension note
14 7/8in. x 20in.
Inscription
Signed and dated lower left: 'W Evans 1834'
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour heightened with white
Production
Person
Evans, William, 1798 - 1877 (Artist)
Date
1834
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: With Fry Gallery, London
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, William Evans of Eton, 1998, no.40
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, William Evans of Eton, 1998, no.40
References
• Connor, L.M., William Evans of Eton 1798-1877, exhibition catalogue, Brewhouse, Eton 1998 (p.53, no.40)
