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Panoramic landscapes in watercolor became an important source of income during John Martin’s late career. This work demonstrates his ability to convey monumentality on a small scale and to combine broad washes of color with meticulous detail. The sweeping vista in this drawing describes the fertile valley of the River Tyne, known for its forests, flora, and fauna. Curving arcs of slopes and plains swirl around the composition. A tiny couple and dog rush through the vast landscape beneath ominous storm clouds.
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159770
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The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw
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159770
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drawing
title
The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw
description
Panoramic landscapes in watercolor became an important source of income during John Martin’s late career. This work demonstrates his ability to convey monumentality on a small scale and to combine broad washes of color with meticulous detail. The sweeping vista in this drawing describes the fertile valley of the River Tyne, known for its forests, flora, and fauna. Curving arcs of slopes and plains swirl around the composition. A tiny couple and dog rush through the vast landscape beneath ominous storm clouds.
date
1842
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79979914
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2786
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Drawing
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 26.6 x 67.5 cm (10 1/2 x 26 9/16 in.)
cul
England, 19th century
accession
1997.138
Source extras
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watercolor, gouache and gum arabic with graphite underdrawing, sanding, and scraping
tombstone
The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw, 1842. John Martin (British, 1789–1854). Watercolor, gouache and gum arabic with graphite underdrawing, sanding, and scraping; sheet: 26.6 x 67.5 cm (10 1/2 x 26 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1997.138
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description
cream(3) wove paper, lined with beige(1) wove paper, perimeter mounted to a tertiary support of modern matboard
collection
DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in watercolor: J. Martin / 1842
didYouKnow
The setting of this watercolor is John Martin's native Northumberland, to which he was deeply attached and described having spent time there "exulting in the sublime grandeur of the surrounding beauties of nature."
citations
1
citation
Feaver, William. <em>The Art of John Martin</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 178-9, 232 n. 50, 233 n. 91; Reproduced: fig. 137
2
citation
Feaver, William. <em>John Martin Loan Exhibition: Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Prints</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1975.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 43
3
citation
<em>British Paintings and Watercolours of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Spink-Leger Pictures, 1997.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 15
4
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major African Sculpture, Recent Mark Tansey Painting, and Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” September 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
5
citation
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 190-191, 294, no. 78; Reproduced: p. 191
6
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 60-3, 146-7, no. 19b; Reproduced: pp. 62-3
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 08:17:27.745000
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159770
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Drawings
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DR - British
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watercolor, gouache and gum arabic with graphite underdrawing, sanding, and scraping
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male
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