The Rivers of England (‘River Scenery’): Ripon Minster on the Rivers Ure and Skell, engraved by T. Lupton
1825 · Mezzotint on paper
image: 147 x 224 mm
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Thomas Girtin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1775
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Masters of British Painting, 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
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Thomas Girtin was an English watercolourist and etcher who elevated the medium to a major fine art form in the early nineteenth century. Working alongside and in competition with J.M.W. Turner, he developed a distinctive approach to landscape that moved watercolour beyond topographical convention toward expressive atmospheric effect. His work has been exhibited at MoMA and established a foundation for the tradition of British landscape painting that would define the century.
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