Details 1272 was a detail that I could not identify. If some readers of this blog managed to identify it, you deserve to be congratulated and to win!
The result published today states that the picture is by Samuel Prout and is titled "Dover". No-one managed to send in a correct answer. This is another example of Jenny Gilbert using a detail that followers of the competition could not find. I have mentioned before that in all the years of Tom Lubbock's stewardship, there was, I believe, only one occasion when the detail was unidentified.
Once again, the painting is in the United States, where many of Jenny Gilbert's selections are to be found. It is stated to be in The Morgan Library, New York.
I can find no full size version on the internet. There is no record of it in the search facility of the Morgan Library that I can find. Here is the one published in the Independent on Sunday:
Finally, I could not find 1273, either. This was a drawing, and drawings are notoriously difficult to find. We shall see next week.
Detail 1273
08.11.15 There was some improvement on last week's "No winner". This week there was a single winner who guessed the artist correctly. However, although Ms Gilbert states that the aquatint was the inspiration for a set of drawings and poems (in the form of an early comic) titled "The Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque, A Poem", she does not give the title of the aquatint from which the detail was taken. Nor does she state where it is to be found.
09.11.15
The artist was Thomas Rowlandson.
14.11.15
The result published today states that the picture is by Samuel Prout and is titled "Dover". No-one managed to send in a correct answer. This is another example of Jenny Gilbert using a detail that followers of the competition could not find. I have mentioned before that in all the years of Tom Lubbock's stewardship, there was, I believe, only one occasion when the detail was unidentified.
Once again, the painting is in the United States, where many of Jenny Gilbert's selections are to be found. It is stated to be in The Morgan Library, New York.
I can find no full size version on the internet. There is no record of it in the search facility of the Morgan Library that I can find. Here is the one published in the Independent on Sunday:
Finally, I could not find 1273, either. This was a drawing, and drawings are notoriously difficult to find. We shall see next week.
Detail 1273
08.11.15 There was some improvement on last week's "No winner". This week there was a single winner who guessed the artist correctly. However, although Ms Gilbert states that the aquatint was the inspiration for a set of drawings and poems (in the form of an early comic) titled "The Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque, A Poem", she does not give the title of the aquatint from which the detail was taken. Nor does she state where it is to be found.
09.11.15
The artist was Thomas Rowlandson.
14.11.15
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