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Description: | John Oldfield learnt drawing as a mapmaker in the Trigonometrical Survey Team, working for the military Board of Ordnance. Drawing was a standard part of military training at this time. The style of this scene had become rather old-fashioned by the time it was painted. The view is probably imaginary, and is constructed rather like a stage set. The arching tree and the castle on a rock were standard picture features. The picture is painted in thick opaque watercolour. Oldfield later became a General in the Royal Engineers. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art movement artists watercolours art | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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