Peamore, Devon, 1799

Not on View

Medium

wash and watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on eight joined sheets of laid paper, on the artist's original mount

Dimensions

image: 45.2 x 57.3 cm (17 13/16 x 22 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2007.16.1

Artists / Makers

John White Abbott (artist) British, 1763 - 1851

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and black ink: JAW 1799; in graphite on verso of mount: Peamore--1799 Given to Francis Abbott / March 1, 1832

Provenance

Given by the artist to his son, Francis Abbott (1832); by descent in the family (sale, Sotheby's London, 21 March 2002, no. 169); (Spink-Leger, London); (sale, Sotheby's London 20 November 2003, no. 58); (Lowell Libson Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Abbott, Francis
Lowell Libson, Ltd.
Lowell Libson, Ltd.
Sotheby's, London
Sotheby's, London
Spink-Leger

Exhibition History

2006: Of the Moment: British Landscapes and Figure Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Lowell Libson Ltd at Trinity Art, New York, 2006, no. 9.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 59.