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Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 'Mountainous Landscape with Ruins and Buildings', 1796

Key facts
Full title Mountainous Landscape with Ruins and Buildings
Artist Ramsay Richard Reinagle
Artist dates 1775 - 1862
Date made 1796
Medium and support Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions 13 × 33.4 cm
Inscription summary Inscribed
Acquisition credit The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
Inventory number L864
Location Not on display
Image copyright The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery, © Private collection 2000. Used by permission
Collection Main Collection
Mountainous Landscape with Ruins and Buildings
Ramsay Richard Reinagle

The strong horizontal composition of the sketch suggests that it was made as a study for a panorama painting. The colours are muted, the forms not sharply distinguished from one another, and the paint applied thinly, almost like watercolour. The space seems compressed, with the farm buildings and ruins in the middle distance forming a single horizontal line.

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