- Title:
- The promenade Aberystwyth
- Object name(s):
- Prints; Seaside view at Aberystwyth with a promenade, pier, Old College and Constitution Hill
- Brief description:
- Seaside view at Aberystwyth; foreground, grass, plants, a low wall and a lamp post; middleground, parked cars, pedestrians walking on a promenade, a cyclist, a pier, lamp posts with illuminations, benches, litter bins, flag poles, University buildings (Old College) with ladders and scaffolding, a man with a dog on rocks, a seagull and the sea; background, a hovercraft on the sea, the houses of Marine Terrace and Constitution Hill with a cliff railway. Colour etching with dust-ground aquatint printed in greens, browns and blues
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1996
- Acquisition funding source:
- Catherine Lewis Trust
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 397
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 332
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower left margin) 78/150, (pencil, lower centre margin) 'The promenade Aberystwyth', (pencil, lower right margin) Miles [artist's signature]
- Material:
- Colour etching with aquatint on white 300 gms Somerset paper
- Object name:
- Prints; Seaside view at Aberystwyth with a promenade, pier, Old College and Constitution Hill
- Object number:
- PR1980
- Object production date:
- 1980
- Date - association:
- C
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1980
- Date - latest:
- 1995
- Object production person:
- Gordon Miles
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter and printmaker. Studied photolithography at the London College of Printing, 1963-68, and illustration at Harrow School of Art. He ran the Gordon Miles Gallery in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, before establishing a Print Studio in Machynlleth where he undertakes commissioned limited edition prints. His work includes colour etchings of British waterways, Welsh landscapes, horses and architectural subjects
- Person's birth date:
- 1947
- Person's forenames:
- Gordon
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, England, Maidstone
- Person's surname:
- Miles
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales
- Owner:
- The artist
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/07138eb0-0232-3ee5-b2ce-f4cbe4b8e525
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/07138eb0-0232-3ee5-b2ce-f4cbe4b8e525, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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