Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire

JOHN INIGO RICHARDS, R.A.
1720 - 1810 London

Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire

Watercolour over pencil on laid Whatman paper
251 x 383 mm, 10 x 15 ¼ in.

Provenance
With the Ruskin Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon

Richards was the principal scene painter at Covent Garden Theatre from 1777 and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and its secretary from 1788 until his death. His watercolours tend to be traditional topographical views in the manner of Paul Sandby.

This is a view of the market town of Wotton-under-Edge in the Stroud area of Gloucestershire showing the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin.