Harvesters loading Sheaves of Corn near Louth, Lincolnshire
Harvesters loading Sheaves of Corn near Louth, Lincolnshire
Harvesters loading Sheaves of Corn near Louth, LincolnshireSigned lower right: Geo. Sidney Shepherd. 1832Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out54.6 by 66.7 cm., 21 1/2 by 26 1/4 in.Provenance:With Agnew's, London, 2001;Private Collection until 2024Literature:Agnew's, Watercolours & Drawings, 2001, no.82, ill.Exhibited:London, Agnew's, Watercolours & Drawings - 128th Annual Exhibition, 1st to 30th March 20001, no.82Shepherd was a London-born artist who specialised in topographical and architectural watercolours especially of his native city. This unusually large work by him may be the watercolour exhibited at the New Watercolour Society in 1832, no.133 as `Hay-Makers'. Behind is the 300 ft. spire of St James's Church in Louth, Lincolnshire.){kind=link}
George Sidney Shepherd (1784-1862)
Harvesters loading Sheaves of Corn near Louth, Lincolnshire
Signed lower right: Geo. Sidney Shepherd. 1832
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
54.6 by 66.7 cm., 21 1/2 by 26 1/4 in.
Provenance:
With Agnew's, London, 2001;
Private Collection until 2024
Literature:
Agnew's, Watercolours & Drawings, 2001, no.82, ill.
Exhibited:
London, Agnew's, Watercolours & Drawings - 128th Annual Exhibition, 1st to 30th March 20001, no.82
Shepherd was a London-born artist who specialised in topographical and architectural watercolours especially of his native city. This unusually large work by him may be the watercolour exhibited at the New Watercolour Society in 1832, no.133 as `Hay-Makers'. Behind is the 300 ft. spire of St James's Church in Louth, Lincolnshire.