John Webber
Near Cromford, Derbyshire
About this artwork
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artist:John Webber (1751 - 1793) English
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title:Near Cromford, Derbyshire
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date created:Dated 1789
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materials:Black chalk and watercolour on paper
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measurements:33.70 x 47.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Miss Helen Barlow Bequest 1976
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accession number:D 5023.47
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John Webber
John Webber
Webber was the son of the Swiss sculptor Abraham Wäber. He trained in Berne with the landscape painter Johann Ludwig Aberli, and then from 1770 studied at the Académie Royale in Paris. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited there in 1776. His work impressed the botanist Dr...