Sacred Circle, Mis Tor, Langstone Moor, Dartmoor

F.J. Widgery was commissioned to produce 22 watercolours of Dartmoor scenes to illustrate a revised edition of Samuel Rowe’s A Perambulation of Dartmoor, published in 1896. He represented the most prominent features of the landscape such as the tors, standing stones, rivers and bridges. In 1953 RAMM took an opportunity to purchase the complete original set. Each scene is portrayed in the fresh, bright colours of late spring and early summer. Unfortunately the plates were not reproduced in colour and these qualities are entirely absent in the publication.