Description
Inscribed with title verso and inscribed on part of old mount: View in Borrowdale. This view is taken from the Common adjoining the ground on which rests the extra:/ordinary self-rock called the Bowdar-stone. The distant mountains in this scene are/Bull-crag, Serjeant-crag & Glaramara. The latter is a naked rock, of stupendous height/& much broken. His summit only appears in this drawing & finishes the distant out.../of it on the right, or west side.
Pen and grey and brown ink and watercolour over pencil
27 by 37.8 cm, 10 ' by 14 ' inches
This is a view looking south down Borrowdale from near the Bowder Stone towards Rosthwaite. In the foreground is the river Derwent with the summit of Glaramara in the distance. Constable drew a similar view on his tour of the Lake District in 1806 ' 'View of the Borrowdale towards Glaramara', Victoria and Albert Museum (see Hebron, Shields and Wilcox, The Solitude of Mountains ' Constable and the Lake District, 2006, p.136, no.64, ill.).
Sunderland was born at Whittington Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumberland and ran the family business of iron mining until 1784 when he retired to Little Croft, his large house in Ulverston. He devoted the rest of his life to local affairs and to drawing the scenery of the Lake District. A view of the Bowder Stone in Borrowdale by Sunderland, on the same sized sheet is in the collection of the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere (see Stephen Hebron, In the Line of Beauty ' Early views of the Lake District by Amateur Artists, 2008, p.82, no.54, ill.).
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Image Credit
image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art
Location
Borrowdale, Cumbria, England
Country
England
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Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
