Deer in parkland
Deer in parkland
1023
This work is attributed to Bray based on the signature and style. It bears stylistic similarities to, although perhaps greater quality than, some of the artist's watercolours. A large tree dominates this composition as a Picturesque repoussoir, creating a vignette providing depth to the landscape scene. Bray has handled this traditional 18th-century device with enthusiasm and some skill. It is a device still being used in 1804 by John Sell Cotman, following his first visit to Yorkshire. Cotman's large drawing of Newburgh Priory; the Long Gallery from Crow Wood (no.20 in the Cotman Bicentenary exhibition catalogue edited by Miklos Rajnai, 1982) has a comparable composition with a tree and three deer.
Dimensions:
1793?
Watercolour
Signed and dated lower right
There is a tear of approximately five pms in the centre left of the watercolour
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