1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hogarth's Tomb and Chiswick Reach is a 1940 watercolor by Archibald Standish Hartrick, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet riverside scene with a stone fence and bare trees. The fence runs along a grassy bank, and a small building with a dome sits behind it. The trees have no leaves, and the sky is pale and washed out. The artist focused on simple shapes and loose brushstrokes, making it feel quick and sketchy. The dome building looks like a tomb, which matches the title. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour by Archibald Standish Hartrick depicts Hogarth’s Tomb and Chiswick Reach as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative to document the British landscape and its changing character. Created in 1940 under a scheme organized by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime, the work reflects concerns about potential bomb damage, invasion, and broader transformations to rural and urban environments. The project, led by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, commissioned artists to record buildings, landscapes, and places that embodied…
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Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work.
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