This painting features an elevated view of a pastoral landscape with a white city nestled among rolling hills. The horizon is just above the center of the painting, with the scattered buildings and green hills stretching beneath a vast light blue sky. Lush trees and foliage frame the land closest to us, with leaves in various shades of green and what looks like a small brown path leading from the top of a hill down towards the land in the distance. In the center of the painting, an ornate white building with large windows stands in a sunny patch of land, while distant structures are…
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Easby Abbey, near Richmond

George Cuitt the Younger (British, 1779 - 1854)

c. 1821/1854

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.9 x 91.6 cm (25 15/16 x 36 1/16 in.) ; framed: 80 x 105.4 x 6.9 cm (31 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 2 11/16 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Miss Harriet Winslow
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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