Cheddar
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Summary
: K1087
: Fine Art
: painting
: Cheddar
: SHARPLES, Rolinda
: an oil painting on panel, showing: the village of Cheddar, Somerset, with the prominent Lion Rock to the left in the distance; in the artist's diary (copied by Ellen Sharples into her own diary) for 1828, she records "[Sept. 9] Set off for Cheddar with Miss Shipperdson. Rocks very beautiful. [Sept 10] Began a view; rained more or less every day during the week we remained, had to sit in the wet painting during the intervals between the showers ... [Sept 29] Began an enlarged copy of Cheddar on panel."; for the study for this work, mentioned in diary entry - see K807
Current Location
: 1828
: 1828
: [Book] Quick, Richard. 1910. Catalogue of the Sharples Collection of Pastel Portraits and Oil Paintings. 1. 32.: [Book] Knox, Katharine M. 1930. The Sharples: their Portraits of George Washington and his Contemporaries. 1. 134.: Purchased, 1931