Crossing the Ford, Okehampton

Crossing the Ford, Okehampton

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Crossing the Ford, Okehampton, Devon

Signed lower right: Rowlandson. 1791 and inscribed lower left: Oakhampton
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over traces of pencil
22 by 33 cm., 8 ¾ by 13 in.

Okehampton stands at the junction of East and West Okement rivers in mid Devon just to the north of Dartmoor. A smaller view of Okehampton by Rowlandson dated 1816 was sold at Christie's on July 10 1984, lot 31.