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Gordale Scar A Gordale in Manor East Malham in Craven Yorkshire Property Lord Ribblesdale
Purchased 1878
animals: actions
animals: mammals
bull
cliff
cloud
cow
deer
England
England, Northern
fighting
Gordale Scar
gorge
landscape
natural phenomena
places
rocky
shadow
storm
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
water: inland
waterfall
weather
Yorkshire, North
<p>Gordale Scar is a bank of limestone cliffs near Settle, Yorkshire. Ward painted this picture for Lord Ribblesdale, a local landowner. He emphasised the height and scale of the cliffs by subtly manipulating the perspective. In the foreground he shows deer and cattle, including a white bull from the (originally wild) Chillingham herd, who appears to guard the cleft of Gordale Beck. Working in the last years of the Napoleonic wars, Ward aimed to depict a national landscape, primordial and unchanging, defended by ‘John Bull’ in animal form. His painting also epitomised the awe-inspiring qualities of the fashionable ‘Sublime’ landscape.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
2009-08-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-18
Sublime
Collection based display
Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)
support: 3327 × 4216 mm
Purchased 1878
<div><p><span>Gordale Scar is a bank of limestone cliffs near Settle, Yorkshire. James Ward painted this picture for Lord Ribblesdale, a local landowner. He emphasised the height and scale of the cliffs by subtly manipulating the perspective. Working in the last years of the Napoleonic wars, Ward aimed to depict a national landscape, primordial and unchanging, defended by ‘John Bull’ in animal form. His painting also epitomised the awe-inspiring qualities of the fashionable ‘Sublime’ landscape.</span></p></div>
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animals: actions animals: mammals bull cliff cloud cow deer England England, Northern fighting Gordale Scar gorge landscape natural phenomena places rocky shadow storm UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features waterfall water: inland weather Yorkshire, North