Watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-cox-117" aria-label="More by David Cox" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Cox</a>
Waiting Ferry Boat
Bequeathed by Travers Buxton 1945
adults
animals: mammals
horse
landscape
man
marsh
people
riding
river
society
transport: land
water: inland
woman
<p>Cox and De Wint can be said to have advocated a ‘British Impressionism’ in the 1840s and 1850s. By contrast Turner, whose work as a watercolourist was known almost exclusively from his highly finished views, became the forerunner of High Victorian realist and Pre-Raphaelite landscape.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
Waiting for the Ferry Boat
support: 197 × 292 mm
Bequeathed by Travers Buxton 1945
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<span class="text12">Cox and De Wint can be said to have </span><span class="text0">advocated a ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/b/british-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'British Impressionism'"><span>British Impressionism</span></a>’ in the 1840s and      1850s. By contrast </span><span class="text14">Turner</span><span class="text0">, whose work as a </span><span class="text14"><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolourist</span></a></span><span class="text0"> was known almost </span><span class="text12">exclusively      from his highly finished views, became the forerunner of High <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/victorian" title="Glossary definition for 'Victorian'"><span>Victorian</span></a> </span><span class="text13"><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Realism'"><span>realist</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelite</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a>. </span>
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adults animals: mammals horse landscape man marsh people riding river society transport: land water: inland woman