Painting 3

John Sell Cotman 1782-1842
The Silent Stream, Normandy c.1824-1828
Oil on canvas
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Russell James Colman Bequest, 1946
NWHCM:1951.235.120:F

Recalled by Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton,
Writer, and recently Head of Visual Arts at Arts Council England
on Hermitage Marshes, Acle, Norfolk.


Reveal 3 of 10


Photography: Mike Harrington
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For the ten weeks of the 'Waterlog' exhibition in Norwich, ten different landscape paintings from the Castle Museum collection were hung in the gallery, all but one of them veiled with black silk.

At the beginning of each week, a different painting was unveiled, and an audio recording of a walk undertaken by Pope, in the company of a different writer, was made available on this website. These recorded each writer’s attempt to commit the designated painting to memory and recollect it in detail, out in the open countryside.

On this page the veiled image links to the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery’s digital archive where more information on the individual painting is available.

The ten walks and the corresponding audio files can be accessed through the front page of this site.


Downloads

Listen to a recording of Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton recalling the painting (MP3 : 3MB)
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