Buttermere, English Lake District - Monochrome Watercolor - 1831

Monochrome watercolor in grays of the mountains closing in Buttermere, in Cumbria, with the shadowed fellside in the foreground, the waterfall coming down at the right and the water barely suggested beyond. Inscribed in pencil below with the place name and the date.

In technique, paper and format it matches the Gatesgarth view dated 1829: both come from the same sketchbook of a tour of the Lake District, the English landscape most frequented by watercolorists of the period.

Medium: Monochrome watercolor (gray wash) on paper.
Date: 1831.
Dimensions: 12.8 x 8 in (32.5 x 20.2 cm).
Condition: Paper toned, with light staining and wear at the edges; reverse clean.