Leigh Tor Rocks at Poundsgate, near New Bridge on the Dart, Devon
Medium
watercolor with pen and black ink and traces of graphite underdrawing
Dimensions
{"sheet":{"height":0.179,"width":0.269},"image":{"height":0.16,"width":0.247}}
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession Number
2005.200
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About this artwork
This closely observed watercolor was made in Dartmoor—an expanse of moorland in southwest England capped with a series of more than 100 exposed granite hilltops known as "tors," ranging from the monolithic to the nondescript. John White Abbott chose a low vantage point that accentuated the looming immensity of the outcrop in whose shelter a herd of cows has converged. Almost austere in its lack of superfluous detail, this small sheet suggests the untamed quality of the Devon moors.