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Watercolour over pencil

26.3 by 38.8cm., 10 ? by 15 ? inches

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Signed lower centre: J. Glover 1813

Watercolour over pencil on wove paper watermarked: J WHATMAN/1809

41.4 by 58.7 cm., 16 ¼ by 23 inches

 

Exhibited:

London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1814, no. 222, bt. Rev. J. Bostock for £210

 

Provenance:

The Rev. J. Bostock, 1814;

With Frank T. Sabin, London, where bought October 1963;

By descent to the present owner

 

The High Tor is a sheer rock face, four hundred foot high, found near the village of Matlock in Derbyshire. It was a popular tourist attraction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Glover exhibited nine views taken in and around Matlock at the Society of Painters in Water-colours in 1814 and 1815. This watercolour commanded the very high price of £210 in 1814.