Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland)
John White Abbott
June 30, 1791 · Watercolor, pen and gray ink; laid down on original paper mount with brown wash · Drawings and Prints
A life-long resident of Exeter in Devon, Abbott was a close friend and student of Francis Towne. Both worked in a similar style and pushed the restrained vocabulary of 18th-century tinted watercolor painting in new expressive directions. This study of a waterfall was made during a 1791 tour of Scotland. Abbott typically numbered, dated, and identified subjects on the backs of his drawings, and this example is number thirty-three from a group of about eighty made that summer.
- Artist
- John White Abbott
- Date
- June 30, 1791
- Medium
- Watercolor, pen and gray ink; laid down on original paper mount with brown wash
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1972
