© Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumberland
Joseph Wright of Derby
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 39 x 55 cm
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
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.
Provenance
Dudley Snelgrove.