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This image features a winding path through a wooded area, with the horizon high near the top edge of the image. Tall trees with overhanging branches, a patch of blue sky, and dense foliage are depicted with a watercolor technique. The color palette consists of earth tones, green, brown, and touches of blue. The path leads into a shadowed area in the distance.
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This image features a winding path through a wooded area, with the horizon high near the top edge of the image. Tall trees with overhanging branches, a patch of blue sky, and dense foliage are depicted with a watercolor technique. The color palette consists of earth tones, green, brown, and touches of blue. The path leads into a shadowed area in the distance.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Wooded Lane near Ross

Cornelius Varley

Date
1803
Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 36.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.) mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2000.74.3
Credit line
Gift of Diane Allen Nixon
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • Landscape
  • United Kingdom
  • landscape
Provenance

By descent in the artist's family to Mrs. Fleetwood Walker, England; by descent to Mr. and Mrs. G. L. V. Walker, Birmingham, England; (P & D Colnaghi Co Ltd, 1973). (Spink-Leger, London, 2000); NGA purchase in 2000.

Inscription

by artist, upper right in graphite: July 30; by artist, lower right in brown ink: C Varley 1803 Near Ross

NGA object ID 111774. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.