Description
Signed and dated 1861, oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.5cm x 20cm (10in x 8in)
Footnote
Provenance:J.C.Bell, Broughty Ferry
Dowells, Edinburgh, 17 March 1877
Mrs Leonard Gow, Glasgow
Exhibited:Glasgow, East End Exhibition, 1891
Literature:James L Caw, William McTaggart R.S.A ,1917, pp.46/47, 229
Note:This is a finished study for the larger version exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1868. "But although the picture was one of his best and the only one shown, it failed to find a buyer and before it appeared (Royal Academy, 1869) the effect had changed completely" McTaggart had substituted the bright clarity of morning for the more subdued twilight tones of the original version.