The British Sale: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours

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Lot 98
  • 98

Thomas Allom, 1804-1872

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Description

  • Thomas Allom
  • A figure on horseback passing the House of Lord Gray, Forfarshire, Scotland; A figure with a horse and cart by a church in Glasgow
  • two, brown wash over pencil
  • one 16x23cm.; 6¼x9in., the other 17.5x22cm.; 7x8¾in.

Catalogue Note

Gray House is situated five miles west of Dundee in south west Forfarshire.  It was built in 1715 for the 10th Lord Gray and parts of the building owned much to the influence of Robert Adams.   It fell into disrepair in 1945, although it was restored in the early 1990's.