Study for the Mural of David the Shepherd in Lady Waterford Hall, Ford, Northumberland
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1867
Materials
Watercolour over pencil on paper
Measurements
215 x 142 mm
Place of origin
Ford
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434368
Summary
Watercolour over pencil on paper, Study for the Mural of David the Shepherd in Lady Waterford Hall, Ford, Northumberland by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), circa 1867. A highly planned study for school mural. The scene is depicted within an arch. In the centre foreground, David stands leaning on his staff. Immediately behind him is a flock of sheep their outlines very blurred. The background is filled with landscape on the left is a hill with three trees, the right and centre background are fillled with blue mountains. Sky makes up the remainder of the arch unusually this is light green. The arch itself is drawn with black ink. The area about the top of the arch is blocked out, to indicate the decoration of the surround with its medallions as they occur above the mural at Ford.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist