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The Close of the Vintage

Jacob Thompson, 1872

This watercolour is a well-developed study for a missing oil painting by the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson. The scene is in Northern Italy, where a group of villagers are returning home with the season's last load of grapes. It was during a visit to Italy in 1872 that Thompson began making preliminary sketches for The Close of the Vintage. The finished oil painting formed a companion to another oil entitled Rush bearing, a Lake District scene. Both works are similar in conception, grouping, and treatment, each using dramatic, mountainous scenery as a backdrop to the depiction of a local rural custom - in Italy returning from the grape harvest with the last load of fruit and in the Lake District bringing in the last gathering of rushes.

More information

Title of artwork, date

The Close of the Vintage, 1872

Date supported

1997

Medium and material

Watercolour wash & gouache

Dimensions

79 x 152 cm

Grant

1125

Total cost

4500

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