Seaweed Gatherers on the Shore at Redcar, Yorkshire, c. 1838

Not on View

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Accession Number

2022.40.38

Artists / Makers

Peter De Wint (artist) British, 1784 - 1849

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

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

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

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Andrew Wyld
Christie's
Christie's
Christie's
Hetherington, Walter C.
Stone, Donald
Tomkins, H. J.

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.