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Description: | A dramatic Highlands landscape, depicting a river rushing towards the viewer, turned brown and swollen by the surge rainwater. The river runs through a valley between misty mountains, which are dark with the storm clouds, on either side. An arched bridge over the river has been half swept away in the torrent, a man who had attempted to cross can just be seen driving his cattle back to the river bank. A few rays of light are breaking through the heavy, dark, stormclouds, lighting parts of mountains in the background. A large tree lies on its side on the right bank, its roots exposed.
Technique: oil on canvas
medium: oil paint
A Spate in the Highlands by Peter Graham R.A., 1866, (1901.3). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.242 | Go to resource |
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