Sweet Summer Time

Redgrave loved the English landscape and painted it with an intensity comparable to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. This scene is set in Wotton Meadows, near the artist's home in Surrey. The men on the left are erecting hurdles to pen sheep.

About the painting

Particulars

In the same room · Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum

On the same theme · Landscape

Yes, receiving visitors

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper

Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands

The Governess

Throwing off Her Weeds

Bolton Abbey: Morning

Composition of children

Freehand Drawing: Giotto's Round O

Country Cousins

Florence Dombey in Captain Cuttle's Parlour, 1888

Sketch for 'The Derby Day', 1858

The Lake of Lucerne: Mont Pilatus in the Distance, 1857

Fishing, 1855

The Good Harvest of 1854, 1854

Blackheath Park, 1852

Mountain Landscape with Rocks, ca. 1851

Ploughing in Bavaria, ca. 1851

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

Houses on the Achterzaan, 1871

The Stone Bridge, c. 1638

Hiëronymus lezend in een Italiaans landschap, c. 1653

From Glacier Point, 1927

Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1948, printed 1981

High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park, California, c. 1935, printed 1979

Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942, printed 1981