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A mountain landscape with a torrent
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Thomas Walmsley (1763-1806)
A mountain landscape with a torrent
signed and dated 'T Walmsley/1800' (upper centre, on the rock face)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
19 x 27 in. (48.2 x 68.6 cm.)
A mountain landscape with a torrent
signed and dated 'T Walmsley/1800' (upper centre, on the rock face)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
19 x 27 in. (48.2 x 68.6 cm.)
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Sale room notice
Please note that this has been identified as a view on the Isle of Wight, on the coast road between Ventnor and Niton. The property belonged to a Mr & Mrs Arnold but was extended in Victorian times and it is still there today despite local landslip problems. It is entitled ' View of Mirables among the Rocks' and is one of twelve original watercolours that were published as a set of twelve aquatints under the title of 'Select Views of the Isle of Wight and Environs' by James Daniell & Co, The Strand between 1798 and 1810.
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