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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Thomas Girtin. The drawing is made with brush marks, and shows a wooden windmill, its sails cut off by the edge of the picture. In front of the windmill are three buildings with thatched roofs. A horse is resting on the ground in front of the largest central building. A stretch of water is visible in the foreground, in the bottom right-hand corner.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"18.
THOMAS GIRTIN
(b. 1778; d. 1802)
WINDMILL
Collection of Sir Hickman Bacon, Bart. Brush and sepia, slightly tinted. 43.2 x 59.7 cm. (17 x 23 1/2 in.).
Traces of a man and cart originally drawn passing through the open gate at the left, but effaced by the artist, are still perceptible. An admirable example of the brush-drawing - no less sensitive than powerful and precise - in which Girtin is unrivalled among English masters of the water-colour medium.
L. B."
Technique: reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Thomas Girtin, Windmill (1920.1366A). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105326 | Go to resource |
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