A woman in the interior of a Croft, Isle of Arran

A woman in the interior of a Croft, Isle of Arran

John Frederick Lewis, R.A. (1804-1876)
A woman in the interior of a Croft, Isle of Arran

Inscribed lower right:
Arran
Watercolour heightened with white and gum arabic over traces of pencil
17.2 by 26.3 cm., 6 ¾ by 10 ¼ in.

Lewis made an extended tour of the Scotland during 1830 and the landscapes he saw and the people he met clearly provided a rich source of material for the young artist. He exhibited seven Scottish subjects at the Old Watercolour Society in 1831, of which three were views depicting Scottish cottage interiors (nos. 17, 142 and 291).