Tintern Abbey / James Ward
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.7
- Title
- Tintern Abbey
- Artist
- James Ward
- Artist Nationality
- English
- Artist Life Dates
- 1769-1859
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- Object Creation Date
- 1836
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- United Kingdom (nation)
- England (country)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- England (country)
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.r.: JWRA 1836
- Dimensions
- 92.71 cm x 121.92 cm x 8.26 cm (36 1/2 in. x 48 in. x 3 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- A large, Gothic ruin dominates the scene. The west portal of a large church stands with full light, from the left, illuminating its portal. Along its second story ivy grows across the facade while trees cluster in the L-shaped angle toward the right and other vegetation is evident along the roofline of the structure. Several women enter through the main doorway of the building. A stone wall encircles the structure and two houses occupy the land immediately to the left of the church ruin. In the foreground a lane leads past the church with a man leading a black horse and a running hound in the right foreground, and a figure with its back to the viewer is visible at the left foreground. Behind the scene, dark, wind-swept clouds indicate a recent storm that has now passed, allowing golden light to suffuse the landscape.
- Subject Matter
- Ward's depiction of the famous ruined abbey in south Wales on the Wye river portrays the church in a golden light that evokes a bygone age. This lush Romantic landscape with its picturesque ruin and dramatic, stormy sky evokes an image of rural England that was quickly passing in this era of the Industrial Revolution. The gothic ruin was described by William Wordsworth in one of his most famous poems and similarly uses the abbey to recall memories of the past.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- architecture
- houses
- ivy
- mammals
- people and occupations
- places of worship
- plants
- the natural world
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1479 x 987
- File Size
- 170 KB
- Record
- 1984/2.7
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