1822
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hay Field is a 1822 watercolor by David Cox, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting shows a landscape with a group of people working in a field. They're gathered around a horse-drawn cart piled high with hay. The people are dressed in simple clothing, and the horse is black with a harness on. The field stretches out behind them, with some hills visible in the distance. The painting has a soft, dreamy quality to it, with muted colours that evoke a sense of calm. The artist has used gentle brushstrokes to capture the texture of the hay and the roughness of the horse's coat. If you like this painting, you might want to explore more works by the Romanticism movement.
A watercolour by David Cox from 1822 shows a hayfield, with the artist’s signature and date included twice.
Read the full account in the museum source.
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
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