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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Neath Abbey

Neath Abbey

c. 1840s
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Peter DeWint traveled abroad only once, to Normandy, and was disappointed with the landscape outside of his native England.

Description

Among the key artists of the golden age of watercolor painting in England, Peter DeWint was known for his panoramic views of spacious, seemingly commonplace landscapes rendered in broad washes of earth-tone hues. This drawing depicts the ruins of Neath Abbey, a Cistercian monastery established in the early 12th century in south Wales. From the Tudor period there was industrial activity around the abbey, and by the time DeWint was painting the priory, the Neath Abbey Iron Company had engulfed the environs of the church with copper smelting and manufacture. DeWint chose to omit evidence of the transformation of the area and its role in the Industrial Revolution.
  • 1986
    (Bill Thomson, London)
    ?-before 2005
    Harry and Nina Pollock, Cleveland Heights, OH
    2005
    Painting and Drawing Society, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2005-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lemonedes, Heather. "Quintessentially British." Cleveland Art (July/August 2007). Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 8-11
    Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 80-81, 145, no. 26; Reproduced: p. 81
  • British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
  • {{cite web|title=Neath Abbey|url=false|author=Peter De Wint|year=c. 1840s|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.198