Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011187Neath Abbey
About the Artwork
Among the key artists of the golden age of watercolor painting in England, Peter DeWint was known for his panoramic views of spacious, seemingly commonplace landscapes rendered in broad washes of earth-tone hues. This drawing depicts the ruins of Neath Abbey, a Cistercian monastery established in the early 12th century in south Wales. From the Tudor period there was industrial activity around the abbey, and by the time DeWint was painting the priory, the Neath Abbey Iron Company had engulfed the environs of the church with copper smelting and manufacture. DeWint chose to omit evidence of the transformation of the area and its role in the Industrial Revolution.
Inscriptions
inscribed, in graphite, on verso: P. DeWint / Near North South Wales
Provenance
1986: (Bill Thomson, London) ?-before 2005: Harry and Nina Pollock, Cleveland Heights, OH 2005: Painting and Drawing Society, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2005-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Peter De Wint (British, 1784–1849)
- Date
- c. 1840s
- Medium
- watercolor with traces of graphite underdrawing and scratch-away
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16 x 23.6 cm (6 5/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession no.
- 2005.198
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