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Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0

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Date

1770-1779

Artist

Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Description

This watercolor ranks among Sandby's largest, placing the picturesque ruins of the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis in the background, and devoting greater attention to a herd of Welsh long-horned cattle drinking from a stream. Large framing trees contrast healthy young trunks with a decaying arborial patriarch to refer the life cycle. Narrative humor is added by two milkmaids, one of whom stands with full buckets on a small bridge in the left foreground as her distant companion runs from a bull. Sandby applied monochrome washes and pen and ink, then added touches of color to accentuate animals and figures.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location

Valle Crucis Abbey, Llantysilio, Llangollen, Wales

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