South Downs at Amberley
Watercolour
1926 (made), 1935 (exhibited)
1926 (made), 1935 (exhibited)
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Watercolour drawing entitled 'South Downs at Amberley'. Inscribed with a different title on the back. Signed and dated by the artist.
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour drawing |
| Brief description | Arthur Rackham. 'South Downs at Amberley'/'Storm Clouds over the Arun Valley'. Great Britain, 1926. |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing entitled 'South Downs at Amberley'. Inscribed with a different title on the back. Signed and dated by the artist. |
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| Gallery label | From: Arthur Rackham at Bateman's, East Sussex, from 8 Sept - 29 Oct 2017
The South Downs at Amberley
A view from near Houghton House, inscribed with a different title on the back: 'Storm clouds over the Arun Valley'.
During their time at Houghton House, the Rackhams held tennis parties on the lawn and boating parties up the Arun, and fancy-dress dances in garden decorated with fairy lights and Chinese lanterns. The house was very old-fashioned, with a well in the wash-house, no main water, candles instead of electric light, and rats scurrying up and down the hollow walls at night.
Later, when they moved to Surrey, Arthur would miss the romantic surroundings of Houghton: the rambling old house with its barns and outhouses, the winding Arun, the wooden hills, the Amberley quarry, the knobbly, twisted beech and elm, and the Elizabethan cottages facing his garden wall, which all appear in his paintings created during this time.
Signed watercolour, 1926, 25.6 cm x 36.8 cm. Exhibited 1935. Victoria and Albert Museum. Given by the artist. P.5-1936.
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| Credit line | Given by the Artist |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1936, London: Board of Education, 1937. |
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| Accession number | P.5-1936 |
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| Record created | July 12, 2011 |
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