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The Quarry, Peamore

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Date

1796

Artist

John White Abbott (1764-1851)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and grey ink and watercolour on six sheets of laid paper joined. Peamore Park was a popular sketching ground for both White Abbott and Francis Towne. The Rev. John Swete in his Picturesque Sketches of Devon recording his tour of 1789 wrote: `The chief beauty of Peamore lies in the undulating form of its grounds, rising and falling in the regular alternation of hills and dales ' in its woods, groves and trees ' and in a Quarry, which surrounded by a thicket of high towering Oaks, beech & ash is one of the grandest and most romantic objects in the county.' Peamore lies about five miles south of Exeter and visitors and artists were allowed in its ground. From 1774 until 1795 it was in possession of the Coxe family until on the death of Henry Hippisley Coxe when it was sold to Samuel Kekewich whose family remained there until 1947.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Peamore, Devon, England

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Cliffs
Mining
Parks

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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