Winter Landscape, Norfolk

1934

Robert Austin

Associated Names
Robert Austin

Artist, British, 1895 - 1973

The image displays a landscape with a wide expanse of land seen from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon, featuring a line of low distant hills and scattered trees, is in the upper third of the composition. Close to us are bare trees and brush depicted with fine, delicate lines suggesting the texture of tangled branches. A simple wooden gate and a few more trees are to the right. In the distance, above the horizon, a few birds can be seen flying, lightly indicated by small dashes. The brushwork is characterized by fine, precise lines. The color palette is monochromatic, with the entire artwork executed in black ink on a pale, neutral background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift from Clare Calder and her sister Rachel Austin

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.2 x 17.3 cm (4 13/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.7 x 28.9 cm (8 15/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.5.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fine Art Society 2001, no. 108


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rachel Austin and Clare Calder (the artist's daughters); acquired 2012 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

2001

  • Drawings and Prints by Robert Sargent Austin, with a Complete Catalog of His Prints. London: Fine Art Society, 2001, no. 108.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: RSA; upper verso in ink by unknown hand: 6

Wikidata ID

Q76560471

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