Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
72.1.30
Eggleston Abbey, From the River
1899 (Date created)
Ink
Lithograph
Prints
12 in W x 8.875 in H(Paper)
10.25 in W x 7.125 in H(Image)
10.25 in W x 7.125 in H(Image)
American
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, illustrations of historical, cultural, and natural sites were produced as tourist guides and collected by a growing middle class in search of aesthetically pleasing landscapes and travel destinations. Martin Warnke writes in his book Political Landscape. The Art History of Nature (1994) that the representation of castles becomes a symbol of a space previously shaped by a political power that has crumbled and become overgrown. Ruins become part of the natural setting, and the land becomes a tourist attraction, a “final triumph of the descendants of those who suffered under their yoke.” (p. 40) (Isabelle Chartier, "Shifting Ground", Fall 2017)
In Collection
Wuerth, Louis, cat. no. 132, p. 45.
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