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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding

Culver Cliff from Bembridge, 1847

Description

Maker

  • Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787-1855, English

Title

Culver Cliff from Bembridge

Year

1847

Medium

Watercolor with brush and ink with pen over graphite on cream laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • graphite,
  • ink,
  • watercolor

Techniques

  • brush and ink,
  • pen

Supports

  • Cream laid paper

Dimensions

41.3 x 58.4 cm (16 3/16 x 23 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.25

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dover to Penzance

December 3, 2010 - June 5, 2011

Large and highly detailed exhibition watercolors like this seascape were a specialty of Anthony Vandyke
Copley Fielding, perhaps the most prolific and commercially successful watercolor painter of his generation.
This view of the chalk cliffs below Culver Down on the Isle of Wight uses many of his favorite
technical tricks, such as subtle scraping on the paper surface to reveal white highlights and blotting
with bread to create the mottled texture of the clouds. By repeating these formulae, Fielding learned
to work quickly and satisfy the public demand for his work, consistently outselling contemporaries like
David Cox, whose work appears to the far left. Serving as President of the Society of Painters in Water
Colours for over three decades, Fielding exhibited a total of 1,748 watercolors during his lifetime.

Selection II

April 13 - May 14, 1972

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Culver Cliff from Bembridge with the accession number of 71.153.25. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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