Cloud Study (1800s): Art, History and Details
Cloud Study at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s, watercolor. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Cloud Study (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Anonymous.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
Object facts
- Title: Cloud Study
- Date: 1800s
- Creator attribution: Anonymous
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: watercolor
- Collection: DR - British
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 1980.112
Collection credit
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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