Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland)

June 30, 1791
Not on view
A life-long resident of Exeter in Devon, Abbott was a close friend and student of Francis Towne. Both worked in a similar style and pushed the restrained vocabulary of 18th-century tinted watercolor painting in new expressive directions. This study of a waterfall was made during a 1791 tour of Scotland. Abbott typically numbered, dated, and identified subjects on the backs of his drawings, and this example is number thirty-three from a group of about eighty made that summer.

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Object Information
  • Title: Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland)
  • Artist: John White Abbott (British, Exeter 1764–1851 Exeter)
  • Date: June 30, 1791
  • Medium: Watercolor, pen and gray ink; laid down on original paper mount with brown wash
  • Dimensions: 9 9/16 × 7 7/16 in. (24.3 × 18.9 cm)
    Mount: 14 × 12 in. (35.6 × 30.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1972
  • Object Number: 1972.67
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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