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As a young artist, Richards was influenced by John Ruskin’s <em>Modern Painters</em>. Richards’s interest in Ruskin was particularly reflected in the younger artist’s meticulous geological studies made directly from nature. Richards strove for the fidelity to nature that he saw in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings exhibited in a show of British art at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1858. He is best known for his seascapes. Like the Impressionists, he was interested in capturing natural light and reflections on water and wet beaches, but his handling was tighter and his palette more tonal.
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Document identity
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144290
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Cormorant Cliff, Jamestown, Rhode Island
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drawing
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144290
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drawing
title
Cormorant Cliff, Jamestown, Rhode Island
description
As a young artist, Richards was influenced by John Ruskin’s <em>Modern Painters</em>. Richards’s interest in Ruskin was particularly reflected in the younger artist’s meticulous geological studies made directly from nature. Richards strove for the fidelity to nature that he saw in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings exhibited in a show of British art at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1858. He is best known for his seascapes. Like the Impressionists, he was interested in capturing natural light and reflections on water and wet beaches, but his handling was tighter and his palette more tonal.
date
1877
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79921274
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4100
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 58.4 x 94.1 cm (23 x 37 1/16 in.)
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America
accession
1969.125
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tec
watercolor and gouache
tombstone
Cormorant Cliff, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1877. William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905). Watercolor and gouache; sheet: 58.4 x 94.1 cm (23 x 37 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Reverend and Mrs. Danila Pascu, 1969.125
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description
light brown wove paper
collection
DR - American 19th Century
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower left, in black ink: Wm [m is underlined] T. Richards 1877
citations
citation
“A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32-33, no. 156
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Gift of the Reverend and Mrs. Danila Pascu
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2026-05-29 07:24:22.644000
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144290
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Drawings
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DR - American 19th Century
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watercolor and gouache
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male
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photo
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