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Hawes Water
Holiday, Henry George Alexander, born 1839 - died 1927 - Enlarge image
Hawes Water
- Object:
Watercolour
- Place of origin:
Great Britain (probably, painted)
- Date:
1859-65 (painted)
- Artist/Maker:
Holiday, Henry George Alexander, born 1839 - died 1927 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour
- Museum number:
P.48-1927
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case TB, shelf 3C
Hawes Water is the most eastern of the famous lakes in Cumbria, England. Henry George Alexander Holiday (1839-1927) is not best known as a landscape painter. However, this scene has the same careful observation of nature and brilliance of light found in the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This group of British artists, active from 1848 to 1853, believed in 'truth to nature'.
Holiday designed stained glass, mosaics and murals for new buildings, such as the town halls of Bradford and Rochdale in Yorkshire, England.