1750
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
North Foreland Lighthouse is a 1750 watercolor by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a tall, round lighthouse with a stone wall and a chimney on top. It's standing on a hill near the sea. There are a few small buildings around the lighthouse, and a person is sitting on the ground near one of them. The sky is light blue with some clouds. The lighthouse is the main focus of the painting, and it looks like it's been drawn with careful attention to detail. The artist has used watercolor to create a soft, gentle look. If you like this painting, you might also want to learn more about the Romanticism movement.
A watercolour landscape drawing on paper shows a coastal scene featuring a path that curves from the left, where a glimpse of the sea is visible, into the foreground and back toward a small group of houses with chimneys emitting smoke. On the right side of the composition stands a prominent tower, also with a smoking chimney, identified as the lighthouse.
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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (18 January 1733 – 14 April 1794) was an 18th-century Swiss landscape artist who worked in oils (until 1764), watercolours, and pen and ink media.
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