Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-294
Artist: Slocombe, Edward
Date: 1880 (Approx.)
State: 1/1
Size:23.2 x 17.2 cm
Medium:Etching
| Details | Etching. All the Slocombe’s etchings are brown ink on wove, or possibly India, paper.The mount states all 12 belong to the 12 part series titled Rivers of the East Coast. Only 200 sets were published.
Signed artist’s proof; bottom left in graphite ‘Edward Slocombe’. |
| Description | The River Wharf runs for nearly 97 miles from Beckermonds, North Yorkshire, before it meets the River Ouse. Bolton Abbey, actually an Augustan priory, was founded in the early 12th century. By the 16th century it had fallen into ruins. The Abbey was a popular subject for painters including Landseer and Turner. |
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