Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (18.1 x 25.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brushed red ink, lower left: "D. Cox | 1832"; in graphite on verso in artist's hand: "Antwerp Mor[nin]g"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.137
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
seascape | marine art | cityscape | figures (representations) | sailboats | rowboats | boats | steeple | river | church | birds
Associated Places:
Scheldt | Antwerp | Belgium
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sun, Wind, and Rain - The Art of David Cox (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-10-16 - 2009-01-04)Sun, Wind, and Rain - The Art of David Cox (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 2009-01-31 - 2009-05-03)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Sun, wind, and rain : the art of David Cox, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, p. 177, no. 48, NJ18 .C829 W542 + Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
It was largely from the example of his younger contemporary Richard Parkes Bonington that Cox in the late 1820s and early 1830s adopted both a more fluid and more delicate touch in his finished watercolors and a lighter and brighter color range. In many of his most Boningtonesque productions, however, Cox gravitates toward a golden sunlit atmosphere more reminiscent of J. M. W. Turner than of Bonington’s typically cool and silvery harmonies. Antwerp, Morning displays a Turnerian glowing sky but is otherwise close to Bonington in character and treatment. Exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1832 and sold for four guineas, the watercolor was reproduced in color in the 1845 edition of Ackermann’s Art of Painting in Watercolours. Gallery label for Sun, Wind, and Rain - The Art of David Cox (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-10-16 - 2009-01-04)