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Saddleback Wallthwaite
Presented by Sir Edward Marsh 1943
painting oil paint canvas
Saddleback from Wallthwaite
support: 693 × 920 mm
Presented by Sir Edward Marsh 1943
<p><b>N05431</b> SADDLEBACK FROM WALLTHWAITE 1912
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 27×36 (69×91·5).
<br/>Presented by Sir Edward Marsh 1943.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh from the N.E.A.C. 1912.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1912 (167), as ‘Saddleback from Wallthwaite’; <i>Contemporary British Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–December 1929 (389), as ‘Kentdale’, lent by Edward Marsh.</p>
<p>Painted on the spot in 1912. Wallthwaite is a lonely farm on the moor, north of Helvellyn, where the artist was staying at the time. <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/japp-saddleback-from-wallthwaite-n05431" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05431</span></a> was wrongly entitled in the 1947 catalogue of the British School as ‘Kentdale’ and in <i>The British School: A Concise Catalogue</i> of 1953 as ‘Dentdale’, and has now been correctly identified by the artist.</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, I
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