The Edge of a Wood

1800/1801

Thomas Girtin

Associated Names
Thomas Girtin

Artist, British, 1775 - 1802

The image shows a landscape with dense vegetation, trees, and foliage. The brushstrokes are loose and fluid, creating movement and texture. The color palette includes earthy browns, muted greens, and touches of blue. The forms of trees are more defined in the foreground, becoming more abstract in the distance where colors blend.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 10.9 × 14.2 cm (4 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
    mount: 15.6 × 19.7 cm (6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.57

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Girtin 2022, no. TG1774

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 5 November 1952, no. 28). (Spink & Son Ltd., London, inv. no. K3/1336). (Agnew's, London, stock no. CM2831). Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Britihs Landscape Painting, Leger Galleries, London, 1992, no. 33.

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2022

  • Greg Smith, "The Edge of a Wood", Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist, (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022), https://doi.org/10.17658/girtin/TG1774

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