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River Scene with Bridge and Castle

Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (English, 1783–1853)
1869

Medium/Technique Watercolor on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 12.4 x 17.9 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James Howard Means
Accession Number44.791
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

DescriptionDark browns and blue-grays in the foreground; bridge, castle, and distant town pale red-brown, touched yellow, with blue-gray shadows; distant hills, rose and blue; blue sky, warm-tinted clouds; blue water.
Signed Lower left: T.L. Rowbotham 1869
InscriptionsLL in wash: T.L. Rowbotham 1869
ProvenanceColl.: Charles Franklin Shimmln, Boston; Gift of Mrs. James Howard Means, Boston; November 9, 1944