Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Peter DeWint, 1784–1849, British
Title:
Harvesters in Landscape in Sussex
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 7/8 × 38 3/4 inches (65.7 × 98.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "P. DeWint: Harvesters in Landscape"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.140
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | mules (mammals) | laborers | women | landscape | baskets | laborers | hay | men | carts | livestock | horses (animals) | children | dogs (animals) | donkeys | burros
Associated Places:
Europe | Sussex | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Romantic Watercolor : Exhibition Watercolors & Technique (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-10 - 2003-01-05)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 186-7, no. V.16, pl. 161, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Christiana Payne, Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 156-7, no. 63, ND1354.4 P39 1993 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5580