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Lakes, ruins and weather on paper

British Watercolour

Watercolour in Britain from the late 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, when painters walked the Lakes, Wales and Scotland and carried their paper on to Italy. Towne’s pale trees leaning over the lake at Peamore Park, Abbott’s waterfall at Inveraray, Varley’s Harlech Castle across the sands, Girtin’s river at Norwich, Cozens’s Villa Lante above Rome, and Cox’s Dover pier against an orange evening sea.

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Trees by the lake, Peamore Park, near Exeter, Devon Francis Towne, 1790–1810 River at Norwich (?) Thomas Girtin, early 19th century View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome John Robert Cozens, 1782–83 River Landscape in Wales David Cox, ca. 1850 On the North Coast of Devon, Lundy Island in the Distance Samuel Palmer, ca. 1835 Waltham Abbey, Essex Peter De Wint, ca. 1840 Harlech Castle across the Traeth Mawr John Varley, 1800–42 Lakeland Landscape Formerly attributed to Copley Fielding, early 19th century Cottages in an extensive landscape William Henry Hunt, late 1820s Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland) John White Abbott, June 30, 1791 View of University Park looking towards New College, Oxford William Turner of Oxford, after 1825 Early morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland John Glover, before 1831 Barking Timber in Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire Joshua Cristall, 1818 (?) Château de Lourdes William Callow, July 11, 1836 Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome James Holland, 1840–45 Dover Pier, Kent David Cox, 1828–40 Study for "The Ferry"–Snowdon from Lyyn Padran, North Wales Peter De Wint, after 1829 The Honister Pass from Gatesgarth Farm, Gatesgarthdale, Lake District Edward Dayes, 1789–1804 Bamborough Castle from the Northeast, with Holy Island in the Distance, Northumberland John Varley, 1827 Fishermen's cottages at Hastings William Henry Hunt, 1815–25