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Sketchbook: English Coastal Scenery

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Date

1878

Artist

William Trost Richards (1833-1905)

Collection

Brooklyn Museum

Image Link

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1964

Description

Richards was a prolific artist who, as a leading member of the American Pre-Raphaelites, embraced the Ruskinian principle of truth to nature. Sketching outdoors played a significant role in his quest for accuracy of representation. Throughout his long career and extensive travels, he seems to have always carried a sketchbook with him, filling the pages with drawings of the places he encountered. The Brooklyn Museum owns more than twenty-five of Richards's sketchbooks, including the ones on view here. Serving as pictorial diaries of his journeys, they also demonstrate the variety of his working methods, ranging from quickly rendered outlines to carefully modulated tonal compositions to finished color studies.
Descriptive medium: Graphite and some watercolor on beige, medium thick, smooth wove paper
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Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum

Location

Cornwall, England

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Seascapes
Coasts

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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