A different view of Dovedale has also been attributed to Girtin in the past (see figure 3), though it did not appear in Thomas Girtin (1874–1960) and David Loshak’s catalogue (Girtin and Loshak, 1954). The watercolour shows llam Rock from further down the valley. The only feature reminiscent of Girtin’s work is the way that the rocks in the river form into diagonal lines, much as they do in Stepping Stones on the River Wharfe (TG1685), and it was this that presumably suggested the rather speculative attribution.
1799 - 1800
Borrowdale
TG1582
1800 - 1801
Stepping Stones on the River Wharfe, near Bolton Abbey
TG1685
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