Crummoch Water

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Colour lithograph

published 1853
  • About the work

    This colour lithograph, after an original work by James Baker Pyne (1800-1870), is by printmaker William Gauci. It was published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, in 1853, as part of a set of prints titled ‘The English Lake District’.

  • About the artist
    Landscape painter James Baker Pyne was born in Bristol, where he worked as a self-taught artist until the age of 35. He gave painting lessons to William James Müller, who later became an artist of repute. In 1835 Pyne moved to London, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy, British Institution and New Watercolour Society over two decades. In his early period he painted views and scenery around Bristol but after 1835 he travelled to Italy and elsewhere on the Continent, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. Pyne was an admirer and imitator of Turner; his dramatic effects and use of pale yellow tones reflecting Turner's influence. Today, his records of works produced from 1840 to 1868 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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  • Details
    Title
    Crummoch Water
    Portfolio Title
    The English Lake District
    Date
    published 1853
    Medium
    Colour lithograph
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Agnews, November 1960
    GAC number
    5365