
John Varley (1778–1842), The Harrow Road, Paddington
, Watercolor and some gouache, pencil, Purchased on the E. J. Rousuck Fund
, 1991.13
Varley had made several sketching tours through Wales, Yorkshire, and Northumberland. During the summer months he rented a house at Twickenham and, along with his students, sketched by the bank of the Thames. His later works are more composed examples of the picturesque ideal: here figures and sheep travel along a tree-lined road dappled by sunlight and shadow.