Bridge over a stream
Oil Painting
1847 (painted)
1847 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
George Edwards Hering is mostly known for his views of Italy which he visited regularly. This painting is not identifiable with the titles of any exhibited paintings. While the landscape has no distinguishing features that indicate the location, it seems probably a Scottish rather than an Italian scene, possible on the Isle of Arran, which Hering visited.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Bridge over a stream (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil on panel, 'Bridge over a Stream', George Edwards Hering, 1847 |
| Physical description | Oil on Panel; landscape depicting a bridge over a stream and a stark landscape beyond it. Cattle and figures are crossing the bridge from the right. |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | G E Hering 1847 |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868. The Townshend Bequest was made in 1868, according to the Will of Chauncey Hare Townshend. As can be ascertained from the registered files, the bequest entered the museum in that year. In his introduction to A Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Collection of Water-colour Paintings in the South Kensington Museum (London: Chapman na d Hall, 1876) Samuel Redgrave also gives the date of the bequest as 1868 as does Kauffman in; Kauffmann, C.M.Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 1973). However in more recent publications the date has been given as 1869, which is the year in which the objects were catalogued. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | George Edwards Hering is mostly known for his views of Italy which he visited regularly. This painting is not identifiable with the titles of any exhibited paintings. While the landscape has no distinguishing features that indicate the location, it seems probably a Scottish rather than an Italian scene, possible on the Isle of Arran, which Hering visited. |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 125 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1399-1869 |
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| Record created | April 20, 2006 |
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