Sweet Summer Time
Oil Painting
1869 (painted)
1869 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Redgrave loved the English landscape and painted it with an intensity comparable to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. This scene is set in Wotton Meadows, near the artist's home in Surrey. The men on the left are erecting hurdles to pen sheep.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Sweet Summer Time (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Sweet Summer Time', Richard Redgrave, 1869 |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
| Dimensions |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Richd Redgrave 1869' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left) |
| Object history | Purchased, 1885 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Redgrave loved the English landscape and painted it with an intensity comparable to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. This scene is set in Wotton Meadows, near the artist's home in Surrey. The men on the left are erecting hurdles to pen sheep. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 245-46 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 232-1885 |
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| Record created | May 22, 2003 |
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