Sketchbook: English Coastal Scenery
1878
William Trost Richards
American, 1833-1905
American Art
Richards was a prolific artist who, as a leading member of the American Pre-Raphaelites, embraced the Ruskinian principle of truth to nature. Sketching outdoors played a significant role in his quest for accuracy of representation. Throughout his long career and extensive travels, he seems to have always carried a sketchbook with him, filling the pages with drawings of the places he encountered. The Brooklyn Museum owns more than twenty-five of Richards’s sketchbooks, including the ones on view here. Serving as pictorial diaries of his journeys, they also demonstrate the variety of his working methods, ranging from quickly rendered outlines to carefully modulated tonal compositions to finished color studies.
- Maker/Artist
- Richards, William Trost
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite and some watercolor on beige, medium thick, smooth wove paper
- Dimensions
- Closed: 5 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (13.3 x 18.7 cm) Open: 5 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (13.3 x 27 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 1993.225.7
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith Ballinger Price
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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