Cleveland Museum of Art
Bolton Abbey
David CoxLinkedCulture matchlcp-e6b732abd1ec
- Date
- c. late 1840s-1857
- Medium
- watercolor with black chalk
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 119716
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This moody, broadly painted watercolor on rough, brown paper is emblematic of David Cox’s late style. Velvety grays and greens throughout the composition shift almost imperceptibly and streaks of blue wash, describing the distant hills and sky, are pierced by a sliver of brilliant yellow at the horizon. The ruined 12th-century priory is relegated to the background, nearly lost in the twilight. The neighborhood where Bolton Abbey was found was one of David Cox's favorite places to paint and the church appeared as a subject throughout his works from about 1828 through 1857.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Provenance
- 1912: (sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 655) | ?-1931: James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee | 1931-1940: Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee | 1940-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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