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The view is no doubt, like other drover subjects by Richardson, in the Scottish Highlands, a landscape favoured by the artist for its rugged splendor. Richardson is known to have painted 'Drovers above Loch Tay', depicting Scotland's traditional cattle drovers en route to the famous tryst at Crieff—where drovers from the north, and their 30,000 cows, would converge on the Perthshire town. Another work by the artist, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (FA.539), shows figures and animals crossing an Aberdeenshire bridge. The emotive trope of 'returning home' is one that had been used since the 18th century watercolourists, who included a peasant returning from market, or a labourer trudging home after work, to imbue a landscape with atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring his lifetime, Richardson's colourful watercolours of Northern England and the Scottish Highlands, as well as his scenic panoramas of Italy and Switzerland, enjoyed great popularity and fetched high prices. 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