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Creator:
Frederick Sandys, 1829–1904
Title:

Whitlingham, Norfolk

Date:
1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 1/8 x 29 15/16 inches (25.7 x 76 cm), Frame: 20 x 40 x 3 inches (50.8 x 101.6 x 7.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in dark red paint, lower center: "F Sandys. 1860:"

Signed and dated in dark red paint, lower center: "F Sandys. 1860:"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.42
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1978.42FR
Subject Terms:
boats | buildings | dock | fence | hills | landscape | path | people | river | town | trees
Associated Places:
England | Norfolk | Norwich | United Kingdom | Whitlingham | Yare
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:478
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Whitlingham lies on the south bank of the river Yare in East Anglia, approximately three miles southeast of Frederick Sandys’s hometown of Norwich. The view looks upstream from Whitlingham toward Norwich at dusk. Sandys had been acquainted with the Pre-Raphaelites since 1857, and the elegiac mood in this picture shares affinities with the similarly melancholy paintings by John Everett Millais from the late 1850s, such as his Autumn Leaves (1856) and The Vale of Rest (1858–59), in which the waning daylight functions as a memento mori.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (CaixaForum, Fundacio "la Caixa", 2004-09-28 - 2005-01-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (Alte Nationalgalerie, 2004-06-12 - 2004-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (Tate Britain, 2004-01-12 - 2004-05-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites (Norwich Castle Museum, 2001-10-06 - 2002-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 196-197, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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