The River Wye at Tintern Abbey

The River Wye at Tintern Abbey
Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1805
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	108 cm× 161.9 cm(43 in× 63.7 in)
Location	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The River Wye at Tintern Abbey is an 1805 landscape painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. ^{[1] [2]} It depicts a view on the River Wye by Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire. The area was a noted one during the romantic era and features in the 1798 poem Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth. ^[3]

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1806 at Somerset House in London along wiht The Evening Coach . ^[4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1958. ^[5]

References

1. Rosenthal p.78
2. Hermann p.6
3. Bate p.144-46
4. Hermann p.6
5. https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/3613

Bibliography

• Bate, Jonathan. The Song of the Earth. Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Hermann, Luke. British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1974.
• Preston, Lillian Elvira. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg: Eighteenth Century Romantic Artist and Scene Designer. University of Florida, 1977.
• Rosenthal, Michael. British Landscape Painting. Cornell University Press, 1982.