© Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumberland
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)
Location: Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Date: 1786
Materials: watercolour over pencil on paper
Dimensions: 39 x 55 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,375 (Total: £5,500)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 3782 (1992)
Provenance:
Dudley Snelgrove.
Description:
The Bowder Stone is the local dialect name for Boulder Stone. It is a huge rock which fell from neighbouring towering crags at the entrance to Borrowdale. Wright's subject exemplifies the Picturesque, which in the 18th century was a new kind of Beauty midway between Edmund Burke's Sublime and Beautiful. A certain roughness, irregularity and aesthetic deformity were required for a scene to be deemed Picturesque.
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