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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding

Culver Cliff from Bembridge

Description

Maker

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (English, 1787-1855)

Title

Culver Cliff from Bembridge

Year

1847

Medium

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

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

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

Materials

graphite, ink, watercolor

Supports

  • Cream laid paper

Dimensions

41.3 x 58.4 cm (16 1/4 x 23 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.25

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Projects & Publications

Publications

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Selection II: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dover to Penzance
Watercolor Views of the English Channel
Dec 03, 2010 – Jun 05, 2011

Label copy

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
British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection
Apr 13, 1972 – May 14, 1972

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Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (English, 1787-1855)
Culver Cliff from Bembridge, 1847
Watercolor with brush and ink with pen over graphite on cream laid paper
41.3 x 58.4 cm (16 1/4 x 23 inches)
Anonymous gift 71.153.25

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