Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Subject = "Horse and carriages"
Back to search results
Piebald Driving
Crawhall, Joseph, Gouache on linen
Item
of 225
Piebald Driving
Piebald Driving
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Museums & Galleries Item
Item no
20687
Title
Piebald Driving
Description
The work is painted in gouache on linen. The lively scene shows a lady sitting on a trap in the foreground, driving a piebald horse. The background landscape is loosely sketched to suggest a bright, sunlit afternoon.
Artist / maker
Crawhall, Joseph
Size
36.2 x 35.0cm
Type
Gouache on linen
Location
City Art Centre
Accession number
CAC2002/5
From 1898 the artist was living at Beacon Banks, Hunsthwaite, Yorkshire for a period. It is likely that this is his sister driving the trap. Crawhall used unconventional methods often working purely from visual memory. The piebald horse is finely executed with a vivid sense of movement. Crawhall is generally recognised as one of the great draughtsmen of his age, using a free and rapid technique in order to capture the atmosphere of a scene through a few deft pen and brush marks. Most of his paintings include animals, particularly horses, and his best work is highly sensitive to the character of his subject. This work is unusually painted on Holland linen, which the artist started using in 1893, on finding himself without paper when staying with his sister in Bristol; He borrowed some sewing linen as an alternative medium, which quickly became his preferred painting surface from then on.
Exhibitions with this item
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
Animals
>
Mammals
>
Horses
Landscape
>
Water
>
Rivers and streams
Landscape
>
Water
>
Seas
People
>
Adults
>
Women
Transport
>
Land
>
Horse and carriages
Transport
>
Land
>
Horse and riders
More like this