Trees at Fordland, Devon

1841

John White Abbott

Artist, British, 1763 - 1851

John White Abbott

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink with gray wash on heavy laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37.9 × 26.2 cm (14 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.62.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Thuillier, London); private collection, c. 1990, and by descent; (Cheffins Fine Arts, Cambridge, U.K., 29-30 November 2017, no. 551); (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd, London); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd, London, 2018, no. 25b.

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and ink: Fordland / Sept. 28. 1841; upper left verso in graphite: mathematical calculations

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