Near Newport — About This Work
Homer Dodge Martin, mid-1800s
About the Work
Low rocks border the coast beneath a pale sky. Martin gives the shoreline a modest scale within an open setting, allowing the quieter intervals of water and atmosphere to remain important.
The museum records the subject as Near Newport and retains a broad mid-nineteenth-century date. Neither detail needs to be made more precise through speculation about the particular day or viewpoint.
Watercolour lets the light paper contribute to the scene. The contrast between the more broken shore and the open space beyond it sustains the view, inviting attention to small changes of tone rather than a dramatic event.
The Work
Artist: Homer Dodge Martin
Title: Near Newport
Date: mid-1800s
Medium: Watercolor
Recorded dimensions: 35.6 × 25.4 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1953.652
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 50 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Anonymous Gift. 1953.652.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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