Cattle and Sheep at Resting at the Edge of a Forest, 1790–1842, Watercolor and gouache over graphite, with gum arabic and scratching out, sheet: 15 13/16 x 13 1/16 in. (40.2 x 33.2 cm), Drawings, George Barret, the younger (British, London 1767–1842 London), Barret the younger, studied with John Varley and, like his teacher, became a founding member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1805. He was to exhibit over six hundred works at that institution, developing a type of romantic-classical landscape characterized by Arcadian elements, such as the herdsmen tending resting cattle before a distant castle seen here
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Cattle, Sheep, Resting, Edge, Forest, 1790–1842, Watercolor, gouache, graphite, gum arabic, scratching out, sheet, 15 13/16 x 13 1/16, 40.2 33.2 cm, Drawings, George Barret, the younger, British, London, 1767–1842, Barret, younger, studied, John Varley, teacher, founding member, Society, Painters, Water-Colours, 1805, exhibit, six hundred works, institution, developing, type, romantic-classical landscape, characterized, Arcadian elements, herdsmen tending, resting, cattle, distant castle
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