Artist
John White AbbottBritish, 1764–1851
CultureBritish
Titles
- Langdale Pikes from Windermere
Date1791
Place depictedUnited Kingdom
MediumWatercolor and pen and ink with graphite on wove paper on artist’s wove paper mount with washline border
DimensionsSheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.7 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Verlinde Hill Doubleday
Object number2018.234
Not on view
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Prints and DrawingsObject Type
(1) This drawing has the same type of inscription on the verso as it appears in the Grant-Sturgis collection with the initials J.W.A along with the name of the place depicted, and the date of execution. See Martin Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, vol. 1, The Eighteenth Century (London: B.T. Batsford, 1966). p. 128.
Exhibition History"An Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings from the Collection of Sir Mark Grant-Sturgis K.C.B. and a Few Other Sources by John White Abbott (1763-1851)," Walker’s Galleries, London, 1938.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Signed and dated in ink: The Langdale Pikes from Windermere [sic] near Low-wood. / JWA. July 11. 1791.
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