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Thomas Lindsay
Kingdom of Great Britain
Thomas Lindsay is a Kingdom of Great Britain British Romanticism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Thomas Lindsay put clouds on paper. In the 1830s he carried small sheets of watercolor and sketched the sky above Highgate, noting the exact date on the back—22 October 1836—for science as much as art. One sheet is simply titled Cloud study. Another is Cloud study at Highgate. Every brushstroke records cumulus or cirrus with a meteorologist’s precision and a watercolorist’s light touch. See how he pinned the atmosphere to the page, then tap the Highgate sheet to step inside the sky.
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