Thomas Girtin
Guisborough Priory
About this artwork
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title:Guisborough Priory
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accession number:D NG 1385
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materials:Watercolour over pencil on paper
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date created:Dated 1801
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measurements:65.50 x 48.00 cm (framed: 94.60 x 74.30 x 2.50 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1920
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
Thomas Girtin
Thomas Girtin
Girtin's beautiful landscape paintings in watercolour helped raise the profile of such subjects and his chosen medium during his short life. His remarkable talents were acknowledged by his friend and exact contemporary Turner. Both were students at Dr Monro's informal evening academy, where they produced copies of landscape prints and…