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Trees in Peamore Park, Exeter

Maker

(artist)
1764-1851

Title

Date of Production

(28 August) 1801

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour, on two separate pieces of laid paper, joined together and laid down on a historic mount, with the lower right edge of the lower sheet made up on the mount

Dimensions

Height: 33.8 cm
Width: 33.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.3

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This drawing of trees is one of a substantial number of such studies Abbott drew in the immediate vicinity of his native Exeter. Like his teacher and neighbour, Francis Towne, Abbott frequently sketched in the grounds of Peamore House. Although this drawing is meticulous, his preoccupation is with the pattern of light and shade provided by their canopies rather than a study of trees as an identifiable species.

Provenance

given by the artist to his son, John Abbott (b.1799), 1 March 1832 (see inscription on drawing); William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979 ...More

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968

Early English watercolours, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 08/10/1958-23/11/1958 ...Less

Literature

Early English watercolours, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1958
cat. no. 1
pl. 7

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 37
pl. I

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 4
ill. (unpag.) ...More

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 20

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 32

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 45
ill. on p. 163 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none visible, though difficult to see as is laid down.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, brown ink, artist's hand (according to 2005 catalogue): “Peamore_ JWA [in monogram] Augt 28. 1801.”; written below that in graphite: “Given to John Abbott / March 1. 1832”; lower right, blue ink: “4560”.

Collector's mark: none.

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