Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869, British, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, ca. 1838
- Title:
- St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall
- Date:
- ca. 1838
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 3/4 inches (22.9 x 17.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.178
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.178FR
- Subject Terms:
- barrel | boats | building | castle | church | island | landscape | moon | mound | ocean | sea | ships | sun | water
- Associated Places:
- Cornwall | England | Saint Michael's Mount | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:688
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St. Michael’s Mount is a small island off the coast of Cornwall crowned by a church and castle. This jewel-like painting captures the castle’s romantic setting, where twice a day, the tide recedes to allow access to the island via a cobblestone causeway. In legend, the archangel Michael guards England from a stone seat atop the mount; John Milton embraced that imagery in his famous poem from 1637, “Lycidas.” The artist, Thomas Creswick, was a member of the Birmingham School of landscape artists, which distinguished itself by a fascination with minute and accurate depictions of nature. Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 72-73, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, pp. 23, 26, cat. 17, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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