- Title:
- Under the Hawthorn
- Collection:
- Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
- Accession date:
- 1941
- Acquisition method:
- Bequest
- Associated concept:
- Paintings And Drawings
- Associated date:
- 1853
- Associated person:
- John Linnell
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed in 1941 by Mrs Taylor.
- Current location:
- View by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
- Dimension:
- Overall: Height: 94.3 cm, Width: 140.2 cm Frame: Height: 129.3 cm, Width: 174.2 cm, Depth: 10 cm
- Inscription content:
- J Linnell, 1853
- Inscription position:
- Lower Right
- Inscription type:
- Signed And Dated
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object number:
- ABDAG002316
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1853
- Date - latest:
- 1853
- Object status:
- Accessioned object
- Responsible department/section:
- Fine Art
- Right type:
- Out of copyright - CC0
- Text:
- John Linnell is now remembered as the father-in-law of Samuel Palmer and friend of William Blake but he was a prolific landscape painter and highly successful in his own right. In 1852, Linnell took up residence at Redhill, where he rediscovered the mystical attitude to nature that inspired Blake and Palmer. He declared that it was the business of the artist not to imitate nature but to create spiritual perceptions of it. In this rustic idyll, a shepherd plays his pipes to his companions and a vision of rural England rolls out behind him.
- Text reference number:
- https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/1858
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f6f27518-ccfe-3b71-9b8e-bdf227251d7d
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f6f27518-ccfe-3b71-9b8e-bdf227251d7d, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums, CC 0
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