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Black Tor near Camelford

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Date

1801

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson (1756/57-1827)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil with original washline mount.
This is rare in Rowlandson's oeuvre in being a pure landscape with no figures. Iolo Williams mentions that `Rowlandson's contribution as a watercolour landscape artist.... must not be forgotten either, for it is often of great beauty' (Iolo Williams, Early English Watercolours, 1970, p.141) and he could have been talking about the present watercolour when he writes: `Here too are unexpected things, such as slight impressions, consisting of loose pale washes of colour over a few very free traces of pencil' (op. cit.).
Rowlandson was a regular visitor to Cornwall to see his friend and patron the banker Matthew Michell from the 1790s until Michell's death in 1819.Rowlandson frequently visited him at his estate at Hengar and also at his London address, Grove House near Enfield. Michell owned over 550 watercolours by Rowlandson at the time of his death. Michell's country house, Hengar House, was six miles north of Bodmin and Rowlandson enjoyed sketching in the surrounding countryside ' the River Camel passed through his grounds.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Black Tor, England

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Landscapes & Seascapes

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