At Nunnery in Cumberland, August 20, 1786, Gray wash over graphite with pen and sepia ink, sheet: 15 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (40. 3 x 37. 4 cm), Drawings, Joseph Farington (British, Lancashire 1747?1821 Lancashire), Farington was a leading landscape draftsman who had trained under Richard Wilson then, as a mature artist, traveled and sketched throughout Britain every summer. Aquatint series based on his designs include 'Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland' (1789), and 'An History of the River Thames' (1794-1796), and helped to form the taste for picturesque landscape