The Greenwich Boat Club, 1833

Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1833
Height:
54.0 cm  (21 1/4 in.)
Width:
77.5 cm  (30 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Hudson River School

    Item location

  • Princeton University Art Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 2009-1]Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and the Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art; frame gift of Eli Wilner & Company

Description

The Greenwich Boat Club ... recalls the time Weir spent during the [cholera] epidemic sailing in the fresh air of the Hudson River in the borrowed boat of his student Walter Oddie, depicted at the painting’s far left. In the scene, the group has struck camp on the New Jersey shore, and the men are busy with the instruments that define them as artists, writers, and musicians, their particularization by profession providing a tableau of the period’s emergent bourgeois democratic culture.

People as subjects

Oddie, Walter M. (1808-1865)

Iconclass

25H217
river bank
41A1911
tent-camp
48CC7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked) - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (played standing with ribbon strap)
Transverse flute [4093] (held by man in the tent)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5951