
A Scottish River
1870
Early landscape drawing reveals Cameron's developing interest in Scotland's dramatic topography, rendered with precise linear detail.
- Medium
- graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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John Ruskin
British · b. 1819

Ruskin produced meticulous graphite landscape drawings of Scottish and Alpine topography with the same precise linear attention to geological and natural detail seen in this Cameron work.

Thomas Girtin
British · b. 1775

Girtin's detailed graphite and wash drawings of northern British landscapes share Cameron's focus on dramatic river and valley topography rendered with careful linear precision.
William Leighton Leitch
Scottish · b. 1804
Leitch specialized in graphite drawings of Scottish rivers and highland scenery, capturing the same rugged topographical qualities and developing landscape draftsmanship evident in this Cameron piece.

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