Dove Valley, Tissington
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dove Valley, Tissington is a 1940 watercolor by Hagedorn, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet village scene with a stone bridge crossing a shallow stream. On the left, a small church with a tall steeple sits next to a white building with arched doorways. To the right, a stone house with green shutters and a thatched roof stands under a large tree. The hills in the background are softly painted with hints of blue and green. The artist used loose, sketchy lines to suggest movement in the water and trees, giving it a quick, fresh feel. The colors are muted—mostly grays, greens, and browns—with just a touch of bright green on the shutters. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
Hagedorn’s 1940 watercolour *Dove Valley, Tissington* depicts the village pond and surrounding houses in Tissington, Derbyshire. Created as part of the Recording Britain project, it was commissioned by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime to document places of national significance during the Second World War. The scheme, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to preserve a visual record of the British landscape amid fears of wartime destruction and rapid social change. The work is held in the Recording Britain collection.
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Karl Hagedorn (11 September 1889 – 1969), who signed himself Hagedorn, was a painter and illustrator. He was born in Berlin in 1889 but settled in Manchester, England, in 1905.
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