The Priest's Garden
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Newman’s lifelong faithfulness to the demanding, precise, Pre-Raphaelite style was reinforced by his close friendship with the English art critic John Ruskin. Newman settled in Florence about 1870, and The Priest’s Garden on the Tuscan Coast is one of several works by him that feature Italy’s Gulf of Spezia, a site redolent with Romantic associations (including the tragic 1822 drowning of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley).
Caption
Henry Roderick Newman (American, 1843–1917). The Priest's Garden, 1883. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg, 88.39. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Priest's Garden
Date
1883
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.
Signatures
Signed lower right: "H.R. Newman / 1883"
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg
Accession Number
88.39
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