John Crome

Old Crome

British, 1768 - 1821

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Two windmills are backlit by silvery moonlight along the horizon of this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the composition. The left half of the painting is nearly filled with a towering tree with muted olive-green leaves and a tan trunk. Some dark branches dip toward the river that runs from the bottom center of the painting into the distance, in front of the windmills. Light shimmers on the gently rippling surface, which is lined to our right with grassy vegetation. A hollowed out, gnarled, broken tree trunk twists against the sky from the riverbank to our right. The windmills are in the near distance, facing off to our left. Their sails create Xs against the screen of pearly white clouds floating against a muted blue sky.
John Crome, Moonlight on the Yare, c. 1816/1817, oil on canvas, Paul Mellon Collection, 1983.1.39

Moonlight on the Yare

John Crome · c. 1816/1817 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1983.1.39

John Crome, Road with a Farmhouse on the Right, 1806, soft-ground etching and drypoint on chine applique, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.342

Road with a Farmhouse on the Right

John Crome · 1806 · soft-ground etching and drypoint on chine applique ·  Accession ID  1980.45.342

John Crome, Road Scene, Hethersett, etching on chine applique, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.341

Road Scene, Hethersett

John Crome · · etching on chine applique ·  Accession ID  1980.45.341

John Crome, Tree on a Mound, etching on chine applique, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.343

Tree on a Mound

John Crome · · etching on chine applique ·  Accession ID  1980.45.343

Maxime Lalanne, Alfred Cadart, En Forêt (Crépuscule) (In the Forest: Twilight), 1873, etching on laid paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.34

En Forêt (Crépuscule) (In the Forest: Twilight)

Maxime Lalanne, Alfred Cadart · 1873 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2021.113.34

Bibliography

1838

  • Turner, Dawson. Biographical Memoir, preface to Etchings of Views in Norfolk, by the late John Crome. Norwich, 1838.

1905

  • Dickes, William Frederick. The Norwich School of Painting. London and Norwich, [1905]: 13-149.

1968

  • Clifford, Derek and Timothy. John Crome. London, 1968.

  • Hawcroft, Francis W. John Crome 1768-1821. Exh. cat. Norwich Castle Museum; Tate Gallery. London, 1968.

1978

  • Goldberg, Norman L. John Crome the Elder. 2 vols. Oxford, 1978.

1979

  • Hemingway, Andrew. The Norwich School of Painters 1803-1833. Oxford, 1979: particularly 10-17.

1985

  • Moore, Andrew W. The Norwich School of Painters. Norwich, 1985: 19-30.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 46-48.