↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Colour palette
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Approximate colour proportions
Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.
Photo: Birmingham Museums Trust, CC0 · Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Image licence: CC0 · Web image resized for display. · Museum record & image source ↗
England · 1912
Night with her Train of Stars
Edward Robert Hughes
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Watercolour, bodycolour and chalk with gum arabic and gold medium
- Dimensions
- Not listed in the source consulted
- Country / context
- England
- Movement / tradition
- European and American art
- Collection
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
Watercolour, opaque colour, chalk and gold medium produce a luminous nocturnal scene. Compare the large central figure with the rhythm of small surrounding figures. Birmingham’s catalogue traces the title to W. E. Henley’s poem Margaritae Sorori.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordA MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
