Seaweed Gatherers on the Shore at Redcar, Yorkshire

c. 1838

Peter De Wint

Artist, British, 1784 - 1849

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over traces of graphite with touches of gouache and scratching out on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 14.8 × 32 cm (5 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
    mount: 21.8 × 38.7 cm (8 9/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.38

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H. J. Tomkins; (sale, Christie's London, 15 April 1932, no. 145); sold to MacDonald. Walter Hetherington (sale, Christie's, London, 14 February 1978, no. 128). (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd, London, 1990). (Andrew Wyld, London); private collection; (sale, Christie's London, 2 July 2012, no. 145); Donald Stone, NY [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1937

  • Peter De Wint. Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln (UK), 1937, no. 221.

1979

  • Peter De Wint, 1784-1849, Watercolours Drawings and Oil Paintings. Andrew Wyld, London, 1979, no. 52 (reprod.).

1986

  • British Landscape Watercolors from Southern Californian Private Collections. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1986-1987, no. 22 (reprod.).

1990

  • English Watercolours and Drawings, Agnew's 117th Annual Exhibition. Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, 1990, no. 65 (color).

2005

  • Peter de Wint, Colourist and Countryman, Andrew Wyld, London, 2005, no. 23.

2023

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

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: P 1002 DLA-1439

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