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Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North

Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North

JMW Turner

Art Funded
1985
Dimensions
27 x 44 cm
Vendor
Agnew's
This work was a study for an illustration to The History of the County of Durham by Robert Surtees.

The magnificent woodland scenery of Gibside sweeps from the heights of the hills to the brink of the Derwent, intersected by deep, irregular ravines. The landscape is sketched in a broad, free style while, across the Derwent, a cultivated country forms a fine, bright contrast to the wooded masses which darken the southern bank.

Provenance

John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore (1769-1820); by descent to John Bowes, the founder of the Bowes Museum; by descent.

Watercolour with gum arabic

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