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Description: | Oil on canvas. ‘Skiddaw in Cumberland’ was painted by de Loutherbourg as a pendant or companion painting to ‘A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland’ (GAC 2524). Both works were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784.
A drawing by painter, illustrator and printmaker Edward Francis Burney, now in the British Museum, shows the Great Room at Somerset House during the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784. In it, these two landscapes can be seen, displayed to either side of a larger painting by de Loutherbourg, titled ‘Brother Bridge, which divides Westmorland from Cumberland’. The larger painting physically divides the two smaller views, acting as a literal ‘bridge’ between de Loutherbourg’s representations of each county. | Subjects: | genre hill hut horse lake road fire horseback tree landscape C18th summer dog stage coach evening man | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Philip James de Loutherbourg | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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