Fantastic Mountainous Landscape with a Starry Sky

Robert Caney

Artist, British, 1847 - 1911

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache on gray-blue wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.4 x 26 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.76


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

probably Miss Dinah Caney (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1973, part of lot 299); (bought by Christopher Powney); Finchden Manor, Tenterden, Kent; Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; 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: 167 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2 c[?]; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 22

Wikidata ID

Q64628861


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