Live Auction 6574Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer
John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)
Lot 58

John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)

Loch Tay, near Kenmore

Closed10 July 2012

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GBP 2,500

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John White Abbott (Exeter 1763-1851)
Loch Tay, near Kenmore
indistinctly inscribed (upper right) and signed, inscribed and dated 'Loch Tay taken near Kenmore. JWA. June 27.1791' (on a fragment of the original mount attached to the backboard)
pen and black ink and watercolour, on two joined sheets of paper
7½ x 13¾ in. (19 x 35 cm.)

with Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 20.

Specialist note

Abbott's 1791 sketching tour of Scotland, the Lake District, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire was his only ambitious excursion beyond the west of England. Kenmore lies at the northern end of Loch Tay in the Grampian Mountains.