The River Wye at Tintern Abbey

The River Wye at Tintern Abbey
ArtistPhilip James de Loutherbourg
Year1805
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions108 cm × 161.9 cm (43 in × 63.7 in)
LocationFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The River Wye at Tintern Abbey is an 1805 landscape painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.[1] [2] It depicts a view on the River Wye by Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire. The area was a noted one during the romantic era and features in the 1798 poem Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth.[3]

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1806 at Somerset House in London along wiht The Evening Coach.[4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1958.[5]

References

  1. ^ Rosenthal p.78
  2. ^ Hermann p.6
  3. ^ Bate p.144-46
  4. ^ Hermann p.6
  5. ^ https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/3613

Bibliography

  • Bate, Jonathan. The Song of the Earth. Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Hermann, Luke. British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1974.
  • Preston, Lillian Elvira. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg: Eighteenth Century Romantic Artist and Scene Designer. University of Florida, 1977.
  • Rosenthal, Michael. British Landscape Painting. Cornell University Press, 1982.
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