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Berry Pomeroy Castle in the County of Devon

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Date

1775-1805 (?)

Artist

Francis Towne (1739/40-1816)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/420441

Description

Towne's composition focuses on a famous ruin and 18th century tourist attraction. Berry Pomeroy Castle sits over a gorge of the river Dart, near Totnes in Devonshire, its height suggested by tiny figures that descend a steep lane at right. Greatest emphasis is given to crumbling walls overgrown with bushes and ivy. Unusually, the artist worked on this drawing in two, widely separated, stages. Around 1775 he sketched the composition in graphite while at the site the, in the mid-1780s, added layers of rich color, mixing his washes with gum to achieve effects comparable to oil. Medium: watercolor and pen and ink on a sheet formed out of two joined pieces of paper.

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Berry Pomeroy Castle, Berry Pomeroy, Totnes, Devon, England

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Castles
Forests
Ruins

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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