'North-East View of Worcester Cathedral', Joseph Farington

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Farington (1747‑1821)

Title

North-East View of Worcester Cathedral

From Original Sketches Worcester I Sketchbook

Date c.1789

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 279 x 381 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

Reference

T08449

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Display caption

Joseph Farington is especially remembered today for his Diaries, which provide a remarkable insight into artistic life in London between 1793 and 1821. A pupil of the landscape painter Richard Wilson, Farington chose to specialise in topography. He was a prolific draughtsman and favoured an intricate drawing style derived from the Venetian artist Canaletto, characterised by short, broken pencil strokes resembling dots and dashes, visible here under the washes of colour. This sketchbook was almost certainly used by Farington on a tour to the West Midlands in 1789. In this study he has used ruled pencil lines to help him draw in correct prespective… (read more)

September 2004