[Scotch firs, Glenarchy Argyleshire, 1850-1890] / by David Law

V99/Scot/2

fonds

1850-1890

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

456855

Drawings - 1 watercolour - image 34 x 48 cm., on mount 46 x 60 cm.

David Law was a landscape painter and etcher who was apprenticed to an engraver and studied at the Trustees Academy from 1845 to 1850. He worked as an engraver for twenty years before resigning to concerntrate on watercolours -- Dictionary of British Watercolour artists up to 1920 / H.L. Mallalieu.

Scottish landscape showing a women walking beneath fir trees with thatched cottage, cattle and cart in the background

The work is not dated or titled.
Pencil inscription on mount beneath image give the title as `Scotch firs, Glenarchy, Argyleshire' by `David Law'
Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910

Signature of artist in lower left hand corner