The Fiescherhorn Glacier
About this artwork
In the summer and autumn of 1888 Stott spent four months in the Swiss Alps, where he completed over thirty pastels and small oil sketches of mountain scenes, waterfalls and torrents. In visiting the Alps, Stott was influenced by John Ruskin who encouraged artists in his publication ‘Modern Painters’ to go to Switzerland. Stott’s alpine views match the sublime quality found in those of JMW Turner. The Fiescherhorn mountain range is in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps. The highest peak is the icy Grosses Fiescherhorn which is over four-thousand meters above sea level.
Updated before 2020
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artist:William Stott (1857 - 1900) English
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title:The Fiescherhorn Glacier
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pastel on paper
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measurements:24.80 x 32.40 cm (framed: 43.20 x 58.40 x 2.20 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Allan McLean Bequest 1928
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accession number:D NG 1693
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gallery:
William Stott
William Stott
Stott was born in Oldham. He studied at Manchester and in Paris, where his work was universally admired. Inspired by Bastien-Lepage and his depiction of peasants in rural France, his pictures made in the 1880s at Grez-sur-Loing (near Fontainebleau) often featured brooding figures in naturalistic...