The Moorland (Dewar-stone, Dartmoor), by John William Inchbold (1830-1888). 1854. Oil on canvas, 356 x 533 mm. Collection: Tate Britain N01477. Bequeathed by Sir J. Russell Reynolds Bt 1896. Image released under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported) licence. Click on the image to enlarge it.

The display caption of September 2004 explains, "Inchbold exhibited a watercolour of the Dewar Stone in 1850, with the subtitle 'the favourite haunt of the poet Carrington', a reference to the Devonshire poet Noel Thomas Carrington. In 1855, making a grander poetical allusion, he exhibited an oil painting titled 'The Moorland - Tennyson'. It is not known whether this was the present picture.'


Created 9 July 2018