Trees at Fordland, Devon, 1841

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray ink with gray wash on heavy laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

Accession Number

2019.62.1

Artists / Makers

John White Abbott (artist) British, 1763 - 1851

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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.