Landscape with ruin in the background.

Drawing, brush and brown wash, 11 x 16,5 cm, laid paper on mod. mount, unsigned.

Under passe-partout.

Small landscape attributed to the British landscape painter John Varley (1778-1842). Comparable in style and execution to a landscape drawing, now in the British Museum (inv. 1934,1208.71).
Ref. A. Lyles, "John Varley: a catalogue of his watercolours and drawings in the British Museum", MA diss., Courtauld Inst., 1980.