Llanberis Lake, North Wales

Llanberis Lake, North Wales

Samuel Jackson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jackson belonged to a loosely associated group of artists known as the Bristol School. When his father's business closed in 1820, he became a drawing master, helped to organize an exhibition at the Bristol Institution in 1824, and joined the Bristol Society of Artists. Influenced by Francis Danby at the outset, Jackson developed a distinct individual style after his mentor moved to London in 1824. To establish a national reputation, Jackson joined London's Old Water-Colour Society in 1823, and sent works to the group's annual exhibitions through 1848. This Welsh mountain view demonstrates a mature, sophisticated technique, with sponging, stopping, scratching and glazing used to evoke shifting tones and atmospheric effects. A colored version of the subject is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.