Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland)

John White Abbott British

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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.

Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland), John White Abbott (British, Exeter 1764–1851 Exeter), Watercolor, pen and gray ink; laid down on original paper mount with brown wash

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