Thomas Rowlandson

Pen and grey ink and watercolour and pencil
27.4 x 43.1 cm.; 10 3⁄4 x 17 inches

Provenance
Christie’s, London, 21 November 2002, lot 20; where bought by the previous owner;
Private collection, U.K., until 2022

The present work is a significant example of Rowlandson’s landscape draughtsmanship. It probably dates from the same time as a smaller view of Glastonbury showing the abbey from the main street and marketplace of the town in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (Dyce Collection) which was etched by the artist as plate 24 of Rowlandson's World in Miniature, No. 2, 1816. Rowlandson has used a certain amount of artistic license in his interpretation of the topography.