Lake Ullswater: a party of tourists gathering to enjoy the prospects at the head of the lake
Gouache on paper laid down on linen
19 × 25 ½ inches · 482 × 647 mm
Signed and dated ‘G Barret 22 February 1781’
Collections
Private collection, 1986;
Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin.
Literature
Anne Crookshank and Desmond FitzGerald, The Painters of Ireland c.1660-1920, London, 1978, p. 119, pl.24;
Patricia Butler, Three Hundred Years of Irish Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1990, pp. 52-55, pl. 49;
Anne Crookshank and Desmond FitzGerald, The Watercolours of Ireland: Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint c.1600-1914, London, 1994, pp. 52-4, pl. 56.