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Leigh Tor Rocks at Poundsgate, near New Bridge on the Dart, Devon
Also known as: Near New Bridge on the Dart Devon
About the Artwork
This closely observed watercolor was made in Dartmoor—an expanse of moorland in southwest England capped with a series of more than 100 exposed granite hilltops known as "tors," ranging from the monolithic to the nondescript. John White Abbott chose a low vantage point that accentuated the looming immensity of the outcrop in whose shelter a herd of cows has converged. Almost austere in its lack of superfluous detail, this small sheet suggests the untamed quality of the Devon moors.
Provenance
John White Abbott (1763-1851) 1981: (sale, Sotheby's, London, November 19, 1981, no. 188) after 1981-?: (Colnaghi & Co., New York, NY) ?-before 2007: Harry and Nina Pollock, Cleveland Heights, OH 2007: Painting and Drawing Society, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2007-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John White Abbott (British, 1763–1851)
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- watercolor with pen and black ink and traces of graphite underdrawing
- Dimensions
- Image: 16 x 24.7 cm (6 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 17.9 x 26.9 cm (7 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession no.
- 2005.200
More by John White Abbott in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011191
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