A Yorkshire Road

1898

Frank Short, after Peter De Wint

Associated Names
Frank Short

Artist, British, 1857 - 1945

Peter De Wint

Artist After, British, 1784 - 1849

The image displays a landscape with distant hills on the horizon, a sloping land to the left, and a line of trees or shrubs in the middle against a cloudy sky. The sky has dynamic clouds in swirling brushstrokes, and a monochromatic color palette of gray contrasts lighter clouds with darker land below. There are indistinct vegetation shapes in the foreground, including a lighter patch that may represent a structure, with darker land merging with the sky in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.7 × 30.48 cm (5 × 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7650

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hardie 1938-40, no. 69

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Hardie, Martin. The Etched and Engraved Work of Sir Frank Short, vol. 2. London: Print Collectors' Club, 1939, p. 24, no. 69.

1908

  • Strange, Edward F. Etched and Engraved Work of Frank Short, A.R.A., R.E.. London: George Allen & Sons, 1908, no. 98.

Wikidata ID

Q65019997

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