Landscape: River and Cattle

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

This watercolour view shows an idealised, fictional landscape, which includes a stone bridge spanning a river, a cottage and the ruin of a fort or castle.

Peter Le Cave was a proficient landscape painter, based in London. He specialised in watercolour scenes showing cattle within a landscape, like this example. However, he also worked in oil, watercolour and pastel, as well as making etchings. Le Cave exhibited two works at the Royal Academy, London, in 1801, titled ‘A Mill near Totness, Devonshire’ and ‘Chudleigh Craggs, Devonshire’. At the time, his address was given as 72 Oxford Street. He is known to have been a friend of landscape and watercolour painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817) who, sometime between 1803 and 1805, moved to the town of Masham in North Yorkshire. Nothing is known of what happened to Le Cave after 1803 but he may have followed his friend to Yorkshire.

Places

Subjects

animal husbandry, herdsman, landscape C18th, landscape C19th, cow, sheep, herd, river bank, river, bucket, bridge (rural), house, castle

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Peter le Cave ( - 1806)

Title

Landscape: River and Cattle

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 37.00 cm, width: 49.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

GAC number

1778