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Title |
Mississippi River at White Cliffs, Above Natchez |
Place of Origin |
Mississippi |
Artist or Maker |
Constable, William (1783-1861) |
Date |
c. 1840 |
Materials |
Watercolor on Paper |
Dimension Details |
Height: 10 1/4" Width: 14 1/4" |
Description |
This view depicts the noted white cliffs that line the east side of the Mississippi River near Natchez. Two men and a dog are standing at cliff's edge in the lower center of the painting and evergreen trees are growing to their left and right. The curving river and densely wooded shoreline stretches out before them. Tiny boats are at various points in the river and waterbirds fly in formation above. William Constable was an amateur English landscape artist who visited the United States between 1806 and 1808. Traveling on horseback and by riverboat, he set out on a sight-seeing and sketching trip that covered a total of 13,000 miles, including excursions down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. He returned to England upon the outbreak of the War of 1812 and used his American sketches as the basis for oils and watercolors. |
Provenance |
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, 1978 Sold to The Dietrich American Foundation, 1978 |
Object Name |
Watercolor |
Object ID |
7.4.426 |
Search Terms |
paintings |