Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

1850s

Myles Birket Foster

Associated Names
Myles Birket Foster

Artist, British, 1825 - 1899

The image shows a landscape from a high perspective, featuring distant, snow-capped mountains under softly clouded skies. The painting uses delicate, fluid brushstrokes to create a serene scene with a muted color palette dominated by earth tones. A rugged terrain with sparse vegetation and a branching tree is depicted in the foreground. A body of water separates the foreground from a dark landmass in the distance, contrasting with the bright mountain peaks.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and white and cream gouache over graphite, with parts of the distant mountains drawn with a stylus, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9.4 x 8.5 cm (3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.70.116

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 169 (color).

Inscriptions

by artist (?), along bottom in graphite: The Rainy Day / "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining

Wikidata ID

Q64617987

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