Summer Time
Myles Birket Foster, Artist
This is one of the
watercolours
in our collection.
The place and date where it was made are unknown.
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Object Detail
Measurements
Image: H193 x W295mm
Media
watercolour on card
Description
'This is a picturesque but sanitised rural scene in which the subjects appear happy and content with their way of life. It was the kind of image that appealed to Victorian audiences. Myles Birket Foster achieved considerable success specialising in these scenes, first as an illustrator, then as a watercolourist.
Birket Foster often used the watercolour stippling technique that can be seen here, particularly in his treatment of the foliage on the right. His style differs greatly from the more hard edged and stoic interpretations of rural life by his contemporaries, the French Realists.
Birkett Foster was born in Tynemouth and was apprenticed as a wood engraver from an early age. He provided illustrations for Punch and The Illustrated London News and during the 1850s he designed illustrations to accompany the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott and John Milton. His major illustrative work was Pictures of English Landscapes (1858).'
http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/objects/2008-056/
Birket Foster often used the watercolour stippling technique that can be seen here, particularly in his treatment of the foliage on the right. His style differs greatly from the more hard edged and stoic interpretations of rural life by his contemporaries, the French Realists.
Birkett Foster was born in Tynemouth and was apprenticed as a wood engraver from an early age. He provided illustrations for Punch and The Illustrated London News and during the 1850s he designed illustrations to accompany the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott and John Milton. His major illustrative work was Pictures of English Landscapes (1858).'
http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/objects/2008-056/
Credit Line
Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. Purchased, 1940.
Collection Type
Permanent collection
Acquisition Date
Jul 1940