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© Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, UK

Lovers Espied by a Child

George Romney

Art Funded
1979
Dimensions
38 x 54 cm
Vendor
Morris & Co
This characteristically stylish drawing, not without a touch of humour, dates from the last decade of Romney's career.

During the 1790s he partly withdrew from society and settled in Hampstead to concentrate on the historical conceptions he had dreamed of rea1ising all his life. He was, however, already suffering from mental decline and in 1798 gave up painting and retired to Kendal where he died four years later.

Provenance

Morton Morris.

Pencil & brown ink

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Westmorland Village
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Ullswater from Aria Force
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Ullswater
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Ullswater
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Ullswater
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Ullswater
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The High Sheriff of Lancashire Crossing Morecambe Sands
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The Gower Family
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The Falls of Lodore, Westmorland
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The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumberland
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Stybarrow Crag, Ullswater
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Stybarrow Crag
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Study for the Death of General Wolfe at Quebec, 1759
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Slits cut into frozen snow, stormy ... Blencathra, Cumbria 12 February 1988
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Sketchbook
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Sketchbook
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Sheraton China Cabinet
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Rydal Park
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Rocks Near Lowther
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Rake How Near Thirlmere
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Prospect of Calder Abbey
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Portrait of William Hayley with his son Thomas, William Meyer, & the Artist
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Portrait of Miss Denby
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Portrait of Julia Hasell
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Portrait of James Romney
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Portrait of an Actress
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Portrait of a Girl, Debbie
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Poet
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Patterdale, Ullswater
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Patterdale, Ullswater
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On Ullswater Looking South
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On Ullswater Looking across to Howtown
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On the Road to Kendal from Rayrigg
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On the Lune Near Lancaster
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On the Bank, Ambleside
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On Lake Windermere, Langdale Pike from Low Wood
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Near Haweswater, Westmorland
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Near Ambleside
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Morecambe
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Miniature of four children
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Martindale Hill from Patterdale
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Mahogany table
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Lowther
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Loweswater from the West
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Lovers Espied by a Child
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Lodore Falls
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Library folio stand
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Lees Water
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Lees Water
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Langdale from Near Ambleside
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Landscape with Tented Camp
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Landscape under Hills
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Lancaster Priory & Castle seen from the Lune Above Skerton Bridge
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Lancaster
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Lakeland Landscape
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Lake Scene
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Lake Scene
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Lake Scene
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Kirby Lonsdale
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Kai
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JYM in the Studio VII
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John Howard Visiting a Lazaretto
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Jeunes Filles
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In the Vale of Newlands
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In Holker Park
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In Glen Ridding
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Horizon
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Hilly Landscape with River and Cottages
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Helm Crag, Westmorland
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Hartsop, Patterdale Aug 14/48
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Grasmere
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Glenriddling Beck, Westmoreland
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From the Window of Keswick Sept, 22 1816
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From a Tour of Westmorland in 1780
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Flight
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Farmhouse at West Sleddale
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Esthwaite
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Entrance to Borrowdale
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Emerald, Vale of Newlands
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Elterwater and the Langdales
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Dollywagon Pike
 Acquired 1968
Derwentwater from Skiddaw, Cumberland
 Acquired 1992
Derwentwater from Above Keswick
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Derwentwater and Skiddaw
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Derwentwater - A Sketch
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Derwentwater
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Dacre Castle
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Cut-glass chandelier
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Crummock Water from the North
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Conversation
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Cold Fell
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Cockermouth Castle
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Cockermouth
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Castlerigg Stone Circle, Near Keswick
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Castle Cragg at the Entry into Borrowdale, Cumberland
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Carlisle from the North East
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Carlisle from the North
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Buttermere and Crummock, Cumberland
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Buttermere and Crummock Water
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Bridge over Rocky Stream, Probably Borrowdale
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Bridge Near Keswick, Borrowdale
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Blea Tarn
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Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Storm & Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Calm
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Belfast Street Singer
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Bassenthwaite from above the Town of Keswick
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Backbarrow Cotton Mill
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