Away O'er the Sea - Hope's Whisper

Artist: William McTaggart

Birth Date: 25/10/1835

Death Date: 02/04/1910

Title: Away O'er the Sea - Hope's Whisper

Object Name: Painting

Date of Work: 1889

Inscriptions: W.McTaggart 1889 (bottom centre)

Medium: Oil

Support: Canvas

Dimensions (cm) (HxW): 92 × 143.5 (unframed)

Credit: Purchased from the trustees of the late J. Kydd with the assistance of the Friends of the Gallery, 1931

Description: Oil on canvas, seascape, woman and two children lying on grass above a sandy cove; calm sea with a boat taking emigrants from the Highland Clearances to North America in the distance

Accession No: KIRMG:0000.0033