Watercolour over pencil
26.3 by 38.8cm., 10 ? by 15 ? inches
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.