Prints and Drawings Room
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- John William Inchbold 1830–1888
- Medium
- Oil paint on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 179 × 256 mm
frame: 298 × 444 × 25 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
- Reference
- T08136
Display caption
This work captures the spectacle of stubble or peat burning, or tin smelting in Cornwall, and was probably done from observation. The atmospheric effects, mauve smoke, pink clouds and green sky are unusual at this period.
It became commonplace in the 19th century to see nature and industry as opposites, but here the two are merged. Inchbold has set aside picturesque landscape conventions in favour of horizontal bands of colour punctuated by vertical plumes of smoke in the background.
Gallery label, October 2013
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