Sketchbook, Tonal Sketches of Landscape, Coastal and Marine Subjects in Different Weather Conditions

In the evening Richards filled sketchbooks with pencil drawings of landscapes, coasts, and seas under all effects of light and weather. These monochromatic yet light-filled studies, each image framed with a border, were rendered in subtle tonal modulations and intended as exercises in composition. This page depicts a memory of the ruins of Tintagel on the Cornish coast. Although small in size, these little drawings possess a luminous sense of space and represent as purely subjective and poetic a response to light, space, and the sea as is to be found in Richards’s oeuvre.