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Lot Essay
This view is of Whitby Abbey from the east. The tower of St Mary's Church can be seen to the right of the Abbey, and further still to the right the sweep of Sandsend Bay looking towards Kettleness Point. This view is now obstructed by a high wall. The Monk's Fish Pond at the lower left of the picture is still in existence.
We are grateful to staff at the Whitby Pictorial Archives and Heritage Centre for providing this information.
Whitby Abbey was founded by Saint Hilda in 657 and destroyed by the Danes in 867. The ruin as we see it now belongs essentially to the thirteenth century. In 1830 one of the towers collapsed and the Abbey today looks just as it does in the watercolour.
The Victoria Art Gallery in Bath has an oil version of the present watercolour, dated 1910, which was given to the Gallery by Edward Harris in 1930.
Goodwin wrote on 22 July 1909: 'Whitby once again...I am again inclined to repeat myself in the belief that one or two things in it (for colour) are as good as anything can be' (The Diary of Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., (1883-1927), London, 1934, p. 116).
We are grateful to staff at the Whitby Pictorial Archives and Heritage Centre for providing this information.
Whitby Abbey was founded by Saint Hilda in 657 and destroyed by the Danes in 867. The ruin as we see it now belongs essentially to the thirteenth century. In 1830 one of the towers collapsed and the Abbey today looks just as it does in the watercolour.
The Victoria Art Gallery in Bath has an oil version of the present watercolour, dated 1910, which was given to the Gallery by Edward Harris in 1930.
Goodwin wrote on 22 July 1909: 'Whitby once again...I am again inclined to repeat myself in the belief that one or two things in it (for colour) are as good as anything can be' (The Diary of Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., (1883-1927), London, 1934, p. 116).