The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 15, 2025
Leigh Tor Rocks at Poundsgate, near New Bridge on the Dart, Devon
1800
(British, 1763–1851)
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.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
In addition to working as a watercolorist, John White Abbott served professionally as an apothecary and surgeon.Description
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.- John White Abbott (1763-1851)1981(sale, Sotheby's, London, November 19, 1981, no. 188)after 1981-?(Colnaghi & Co., New York, NY)?-before 2007Harry and Nina Pollock, Cleveland Heights, OH2007Painting and Drawing Society, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH2007-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lemonedes, Heather. "Quintessentially British." Cleveland Art (July/August 2007). Mentioned: pp. 8-11; Reproduced: p. 9Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 52-53, 143, no. 15; Reproduced: p. 53
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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