Der Garten von San Miniato bei Florenz

Britische Grafik 1839–1850, 1845

Sunlight pours across golden-tan colored buildings overgrown with verdant plants in this horizontal watercolor. The main two-story building is to our right on the far side of a grassy lawn. A vine creeps across its façade, and a triangular structure projects up over the front of the building, which faces away from us. A high wall extends to or left and then comes toward us. Copper-brown-leaved trees and dark green plants grow on both sides of the wall and over a shallowly peaked roof, which suggests a more substantial structure that has been lost in the growth. Slate-blue hills are glimpsed in the deep distance to the left of the wall.
Künstler
Britische Grafik 1839–1850
Datierung
1845
Gattung
Zeichnung
Technik
watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper
Maße
34,2 × 49,2 cm
Sammlung
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Lizenz
Gemeinfrei, CC0

Bildbeschreibung

Sunlight pours across golden-tan colored buildings overgrown with verdant plants in this horizontal watercolor. The main two-story building is to our right on the far side of a grassy lawn. A vine creeps across its façade, and a triangular structure projects up over the front of the building, which faces away from us. A high wall extends to or left and then comes toward us. Copper-brown-leaved trees and dark green plants grow on both sides of the wall and over a shallowly peaked roof, which suggests a more substantial structure that has been lost in the growth. Slate-blue hills are glimpsed in the deep distance to the left of the wall.

Britische Grafik 1839–1850