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Lot Essay
'A most solemn, vigorous, carefully studied and
rich picture of a cascade in a cleft of a mountain,
shown in the shadow of a lowering cloud; a
picture of great value, and marked by pure
breadth and solidity of style, beautifully graded
throughout'. - Athenaeum
We are grateful to Dr. Robert Wooff and the staff at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, for confirming that the present watercolour depicts Church Beck on Coniston Old Man.
A watercolour of Coniston with the miners' path, which may relate to the present watercolour, was exhibited at the Old Water-Colour Society in 1884, no. 281.
Hunt went to stay at Brantwood with Ruskin in 1873. On 20 May he wrote to Ruskin: 'Coniston Old Man must have some nooks with yew trees, rocks and streams, and old farm buildings which will serve me for my summer's work' (R. Secor (ed.), John Ruskin and Alfred Hunt: New Letters and the Record of Friendship, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1982, p. 48).
rich picture of a cascade in a cleft of a mountain,
shown in the shadow of a lowering cloud; a
picture of great value, and marked by pure
breadth and solidity of style, beautifully graded
throughout'. - Athenaeum
We are grateful to Dr. Robert Wooff and the staff at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, for confirming that the present watercolour depicts Church Beck on Coniston Old Man.
A watercolour of Coniston with the miners' path, which may relate to the present watercolour, was exhibited at the Old Water-Colour Society in 1884, no. 281.
Hunt went to stay at Brantwood with Ruskin in 1873. On 20 May he wrote to Ruskin: 'Coniston Old Man must have some nooks with yew trees, rocks and streams, and old farm buildings which will serve me for my summer's work' (R. Secor (ed.), John Ruskin and Alfred Hunt: New Letters and the Record of Friendship, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1982, p. 48).