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Old Cottage with Rustics
Old Cottage with Rustics
Old Cottage with Rustics

Old Cottage with Rustics

Artist (Southwark, England, 1775 - 1802)
Date1800
Mediumwatercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 31 cm, Width: 50.1 cm
Frame: Height: 52.7 cm, Width: 69.8 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1956 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG002442
About MeThe progress of watercolour painting can be traced from Sandby, through Cozens to Girtin and Turner. The medium was considered perfectly suited to rendering the moistness of the English (and Scottish) atmosphere.

Around 1800 - when this work was made - watercolour painting underwent a significant change. It had formerly been described as 'tinted drawing' in which colour is secondary to line, but artists such as Girtin dispensed with the linear aspect and began to handle light and atmosphere through colour.



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Girton's work was much admired by his friend, JMW Turner, who said of his death at age 27: "Had Tom Girtin lived, I would have starved".