Robert Hillis and Contemporaries, Cambridge.

[Goldfactory Admin]

Cambridge, UK - An absorbing vision of nineteenth-century rural life is revealed in a new exhibition opening at The Fitzwilliam Museum this month. ‘The field calls me to labour’: watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills and his contemporaries presents a fascinating selection of works by watercolourist Hills, depicting life and work in the English countryside. Drawn exclusively from the Museum’s outstanding collection of British watercolours, these works will be shown alongside the drawings and watercolours of contemporary artists such as James Ward, David Cox and Peter De Wint.