1818
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Old Windmill on Windmill Hill, Gateshead is a 1818 watercolor by Thomas Miles Richardson, a British Romanticism work, depicting Windmill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a tall windmill on a hill near a crumbling stone building. The windmill has a wooden frame and sails that look ready to turn. In the foreground, a person in a light dress walks past a cart and some scattered wood. The sky is dark and stormy, while the ground looks wet and muddy. The artist focused on the windmill’s rough texture and the way light hits it. This style was common in the 1800s when artists wanted to show nature’s power. Look up windmill to see how they worked in the past.
Thomas Miles Richardson (1784–1848) was an English landscape-painter.
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