Dimensions: support: 257 x 188 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have a watercolor, name unknown, by Lady Susan Elizabeth Percy, from the early 19th century. It’s giving me a melancholy, wistful vibe, especially with those towering trees. What do you see in this piece that maybe I'm missing? Curator: Oh, darling, you've touched on its soul! It's a memory, isn’t it? A captured breath of a place deeply felt. The grey palette almost whispers of faded grandeur. The way the light struggles to kiss the landscape…do you feel that longing? It’s as if the artist is both present and achingly distant from this Italian garden. Editor: Absolutely. There’s a definite sense of distance, like a half-remembered dream. Thanks for sharing your insight! Curator: My pleasure. Art is just a conversation, after all, isn't it? A shared sigh across centuries.
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This work is one of many by Lady Percy in the Tate collection. Percy’s other studies are views of Venice, Grenoble and Orvieto, all painted in the mid- to late-1830s. Turner and Girtin had adapted many works by JR Cozens in the early part of the nineteenth century. Percy regularly made copies of these works and she has adopted their style of working in this view of the Boboli Gardens. Gallery label, August 2004