Moffat water
1850

Thomas CLARK

Medium: watercolour
Measurements: (17.2 × 24.1 cm) (image) (17.8 × 24.8 cm) (sheet)
Inscription: inscribed in grey paint (in image) l.r.: TC / 50
Accession Number: A2-1974
Department: Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1974
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location: Not on display

Frame

This small classical revival frame is an interesting example, both in form and scale, of the application of large-scale, formal frames to watercolours. In some sense it overwhelms the artwork in another it adds a weighty formality to the little landscape.
Framemaker: Alexander Harper

8A Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
Date: 1850
Materials: The frame is built on a wooden chassis with composition decorative elements. There is sufficient variation in the fluting of the inner scotia to suggest it is carved into the timber. The torus of laurel and berry is not centred, the sections have been cut from longer lengths, which is at odds with the notion that the frame is built up from scratch. The slip is water gilded.
Condition: The frame is in largely original condition.
Dimensions: 37.4 x 44.5 x 6.0 cm; sight 17.0 x 24.0 cm