Falls of Gotha
1834
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1834
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Falls of Gotha is a 1834 by Edward Price, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a misty forest leading to a waterfall. Trees crowd the foreground, their branches tangled and dark. A rainbow arcs high above the falls, which spill over rocky ledges into a lake below. The sky is soft and cloudy, blending into the mountains in the distance. The artist used loose, sketchy lines to suggest movement in the water and trees. This style fits a time when nature’s power and beauty were big themes in art. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more prints like this.
The print *Falls of Gotha* by Edward Price appears in a book bound in brown leather, which contains 21 prints accompanied by text. The volume was part of the Lennox-Boyd collection, a private assemblage of approximately 50,000 British mezzotints, later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2015 through an inheritance tax arrangement. The collection also included 18th-century picture frames, antique women’s shoes, fans, printed handkerchiefs, and printed ephemera, alongside watercolors acquired in the 1970s. Lennox-Boyd expanded his business, Sanders of Oxford, into a prominent dealer…
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