The River Dee from Creag Choinnich

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The River Dee from Creag Choinnich

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

SOLD

Signed

Signed
Inscribed 'R.Dee from Craig Choinnich' and dated 1948 below mount

Medium

Watercolour with ink

Dimensions

9 ¼ x 11 ½ inches

Illustrated

Park Browman et al, The British Countryside in Colour, London: Odhams Press, 1951, facing page 144, as 'On Deeside'

Exhibited

'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 107

'The River Dee flows down from the central mass of the Grampian Mountains into the North Sea, and the upper reaches of the river yield many colourful views of mixed mountain and valley scenery. It is called Royal Deeside because of the King's Scottish home at Balmoral, but downstream from Braemar there are also numerous Scottish baronial seats such as that shown in the middle distance. Dominant features of this Scottish landscape are the conifers which clothe the mountain sides, and the narrow strip of cultivated land flanking the meandering river. In the background the distant mountains show their characteristic blue tinge, the highest one of all capped with a patch of snow. Though there are no permanent snowfields in the Grampians, only in the hottest summers does all the snow disappear.'
Park Browman et al, The British Countryside in Colour, facing page 144

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