Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John White Abbott, 1763–1851, British
Title:
Slate Quarry at Widecombe, Devon
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.8 × 19.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite, lower center: "9 3/8 x 7 1/4"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, upper center: "The Slate Quarry at Widdicombe__Devon__"; in pen and brown ink, upper left: "No.1A"; in graphite, upper left: "108"; in graphite, lower right: "108"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.1082
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
laborers | trees | labor | slate | men | working | workers | quarry | landscape | masons | cliffs | buildings
Associated Places:
Widecombe-in-the-Moor | Devon | United Kingdom | England | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 180-1, no. V.5, pl. 154, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9973