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Interior of a cottage

Watercolour
ca. 1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour view depicting a cottage interior.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleInterior of a cottage (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour drawing
Brief description
Pencil and watercolour drawing by Charles West Cope depicting an interior of a cottage. Great Britain, ca. 1840.
Physical description
Watercolour view depicting a cottage interior.
Dimensions
  • Size of mount height: 53cm
  • Width: 38cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Given by Sir Arthur Cope
Object history
Like the views in Mortham Tower (cat.nos.62a, 62b), these interiors were painted on the spot during one of Cope's sketching tours. By 1840, artists were touring Britain in search of subjects, not only in the outdoor landscape, but in the 'picturesqueness', even quaintness, of the interiors of old buildings, preferably the timbered, plastered and thatched houses of the period 1300-1600. This love of such buildings still flourishes among British tourists from home and abroad today, and is often thought to be a peculiarly British phenomenon.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Collection
Accession number
E.2270-1934

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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