Dar-Thula, from "Illustrated London News"
Engraver Frederick James Smyth British
After Henry Tidey British
Not on view
The "Illustrated London News" commissioned this print to inform readers of a significant watercolor shown by Tidey at the New Watercolour Society in 1861. The theme demonstrates the continued significance of Ossian as a poetic source considered a northern equivalent to classical epics by Homer and Virgil. London's watercolor societies offered artists a chance to use the medium with ambition and garner a degree of attention not possible at the Royal Academy. Commenting on Tidey's work, a contemporary critic remarked "The artist has fully entered into the character of this cruel epic...with the wild, gigantesque fancy of a Fuseli....in colour the artist has subdued his [palette] to the grey granite hue of Ossians's poetry."
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