Thomas Girtin
Stepping Stones on the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey
About this artwork
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title:Stepping Stones on the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey
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accession number:D 5438
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materials:Watercolour over pencil on paper
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date created:1801
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measurements:32.70 x 51.80 cm
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credit line:Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Gallery of Scotland, 1997
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…