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Richard Cooper II

Near Tivoli, 1770-1814

Description

Maker

  • Richard Cooper II, 1740-after 1814, British

Title

Near Tivoli

Year

1770-1814

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and wash, and watercolor over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 35.2 x 63.5 cm (13 7/8 x 25 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

2005.142.77

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Distant Climes

September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

Richard Cooper’s view of ruins near Tivoli is decidedly generalized, relying heavily on the compositional formulae established by 17th-century artists Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Like his predecessors, he presents the landscape as a perfect harmony of forms within the rectangle of the picture frame. Yet true to his own century, Cooper is sure to identify his scene—albeit vaguely—with the many actual ruins tourists encountered on their way to Tivoli. Cooper used his brush like a pencil, modeling his forms with hatched lines as opposed to brushing on color in fluid washes.

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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 Near Tivoli with the accession number of 2005.142.77. 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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