View on the River Wye, Looking towards Chepstow

John Martin, 1844

The image shows a river winding through a landscape with high cliffs and dense vegetation. The composition features a vast sky, with distant landforms visible on the horizon. Delicate brushstrokes depict foliage,… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: John Martin ¹
Date: 1844 ¹
Medium: watercolor, gouache, and touches of oil paint (?) over graphite with scraping out, heightened with varnish and/or gum arabic, on wove paper ¹
Original: 9,453 × 4,702 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

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