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Description: | Oil on canvas. This atmospheric painting shows a fortified building and two men fishing by moonlight from a small dinghy on a river.
The building depicted resembles early 19th-century images of Chepstow Castle on the river Wye, in Wales. Painter Abraham Pether certainly knew of Chepstow as a painting of the castle by him was sold through Phillips auctioneers in 1980. However, although influenced by a real castle, this is one of numerous imaginary views by Pether showing an invented castle in a waterside setting, lit by moonlight. Despite the many similar works by Pether in existence, he is not known to have painted any of his imaginary compositions more than once. | Subjects: | genre moon tower rowing boat waterfall landscape C19th night castle lake archway man | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Abraham Pether | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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