View near Weymouth

18th or 19th century

John Crome English, 1768-1821

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Title View near Weymouth

Artwork Date 18th or 19th century

Artist John Crome

Life Dates 1768-1821

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Paint on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 11 1/4 × 21 inches (28.6 × 53.3 cm) Framed: 16 1/4 × 26 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (41.3 × 66.7 × 5.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 28.144

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Provenance

1806, collection of W. Fuller Maitland (London, England)

1928, (R. Langdon Douglas, London, England)

1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Norwich Society of Artists. Norwich, 1806, no. 81, [as lent by Fuller Maitland].

Wodderspoon, J. John Crome and His Works, 2nd ed. 1876, p. 14, [as "View Near Weymouth"].

Dickes, W.F. The Norwich School of Painting: Being a Full Account of the Norwich Exhibitions, the Lives of the Painters, the Lists of Their Respective Exhibits and Descriptions of the Pictures. London, 1906, p. 53, [as "View Near Weymouth"].

Crome Centenary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Norwich Castle Museum. Norwich, 1921.

Baker, C. Crome, London: Methuen and Co., 1921, p. 31, pl. 7, [Baker states our ptg. is

same ptg. only different name as "View Near Weymouth, ex. Norwich, 1806, lent by F. Maitland."].

Walther, J. "A Landscape by Old John Crome," Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 4 (1929): pp. 51-52.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 47.

Retrospective Exhibition of Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Athenaeum. Hartford, 1931, p. 22, no. 53, (repr.).

Heil, W. "Some English Landscapes in the Detroit Institute of Arts," Art in America, vol. 19, no. 5 (1931): pp. 200-08.

Johnson, C. English Painting. G. Bell and Sons. London, 1934, p. 153.

Early English Paintings. Exh. cat., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery. Kansas City, 1937.

Palmer, A. Survey of British Painting. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. 1938, no. 38.

Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 6-April 5, 1942, p. 20, cat. 62.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 34, no. 47 [as John Crome].

Three Centuries of British Painting. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Institute. Milwaukee, 1946.

Landscapes of the Norwich School. Exh. cat., Cummer Gallery of Art, Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. Jacksonville, Cheekwood, New Orleans, 1967, cat. 2, (repr.).

Sutton, D. "Robert Langton Douglas, pt. III, section 17. Dramatic Days," Apollo, vol. 109 (June 1979): pp. 447-475, esp. pp. 456, 465, (fig. 19).

Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture 1745-1820. Exh. cat., Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, 1984, p. 102, cat. 81 (repr.).

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