Landscape with Figure in Foreground
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¿Dónde está «Landscape with Figure in Foreground» hoy? Colección: Museo de Arte de Cleveland, Cleveland. No expuesta por ahora. Comprobado 29 de septiembre de 2026.
Cleveland, Estados Unidos
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Primarily self-taught, Varley played a significant role in the development of open-air drawing practice in 19thcentury England. He relished the opportunity to engage directly with natural phenomena and made numerous sketches of the English landscape. Raised by his uncle who was a watchmaker, Varley combined his artistic interests with his exposure to science, and in 1809 invented a "graphic telescope," a drawing instrument loosely derived from the camera obscura. Varley’s drawings were more than mere transcriptions of nature, however. This drawing illustrates a stanza of Samuel Roger’s popular poem "The Pleasures of Memory":
The adventuring boy that asks his little share
And hies from home, with many a gossip’s prayer
Turns on a neighboring hill once more to see
The dear abode of peace and privacy;
And as he turns, the thatch among the trees
The smoke’s blue wreaths, ascending from the
breeze,
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The Village Common scattered with white sheep
All rouse reflection’s sadly pleasing train
And oft he looks, and weeps, and looks again.
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- 2004.40
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- Museo de Arte de Cleveland
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