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This has Thatched cottage surrounded by trees on the reverse

Davis, Edward Thompson (1833-1867)

Medium : material : graphite, pen and ink, watercolour, bodycolour; support : material : paper

height: 24.5 cm; width: 17.2 cm

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Inscription
Graphite, lower left, 2 hours
Graphite, lower left centre, framed by a rough graphite rectangle, partially illegible, height of Elms equal h from top of chimney to lower edge of shed./ "Boy in this position. the same./ hedge curving round into shade - the dead parts + thin - purple/ the tree by broken rail - trunk partially shown. its thin foliage allowing/ wall + garden ground to be seen thro:
it. of a greyer colour
the grass d...fied by dead leaves dead standing grass of browner colour. +
brown + yellow
broken stick
+ earth shewing thro
Graphite, lower right, later hand, XX/ by Edward Davis (1833-1867)
Signed, pen and ink, below large inscription, monogram, E Davis

Acquisition
Spooner, William (Mrs); bequest; 1980
D.1980.WS.36.v

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