Oil paint on oak
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/clarkson-frederick-stanfield-518" aria-label="More by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Clarkson Frederick Stanfield</a>
Lake Como
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
Alps
architecture
boat, sailing
countries and continents
features
figure
Italy
lake
Lake Como
landscape
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
people
places
rocky
society
tower
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
village
water: inland
<p>In the early nineteenth century many artists like Stanfield and Callcott turned to the lakes of northern Italy for the subject-matter of topographical pictures that were often engraved in volumes of 'Picturesque Tours' for consumption by a largely middle-class market. Their new, bourgeois realism is wedded to the older, idealising vision of Italy to produce works that are both serene and immediate - a tourist's view of landscape seen through layers of pictorial and cultural tradition.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint oak
Lake Como
support: 470 × 768 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>In the early nineteenth century many artists like Stanfield and Callcott turned to the lakes of northern Italy for the subject-matter of topographical pictures that were often <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> in volumes of '<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/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>Picturesque</span></a> Tours' for consumption by a largely middle-class market. Their new, bourgeois <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>realism</span></a> is wedded to the older, idealising vision of Italy to produce works that are both serene and immediate - a tourist's view of <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> seen through layers of pictorial and cultural tradition.     </p>
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2004-08-31T00:00:00
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adults Alps architecture boat, sailing countries and continents features figure Italy lake Lake Como landscape mountain natural features (non-UK) people places rocky society tower townscapes / man-made features transport: water village water: inland