Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/philip-wilson-steer-1990" aria-label="More by Philip Wilson Steer" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Philip Wilson Steer</a>
Chepstow
Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the Art Fund 1915
architecture
Chepstow - non-specific
cliff
landscape
Monmouthshire
natural phenomena
places
reflection
river
River Wye
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
Wales
water: inland
paper unique graphite watercolour
Chepstow
support: 251 × 362 mm
Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1915
<p><b>N03019</b> CHEPSTOW 1905</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P. W Steer 1905’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 9 7/8×14 1/4 (25×36·5).
<br/>Presented by Geoffrey Blackwell through the National Art-Collections Fund 1915.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the artist by Geoffrey Blackwell 1905.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (187).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, p.225.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>N.A.C.F. Report 1915</i>, 1916, facing p.42.</p>
<p>Contemporary with <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steer-chepstow-castle-n02473" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02473</span></a>, this appears to be a view of Chepstow from higher up the river, omitting the castle.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture Chepstow - non-specific cliff landscape Monmouthshire natural phenomena places reflection river River Wye townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales water: inland