Near Cuckfield
Near Cuckfield
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
Near Cuckfield, Sussex
Signed lower left: Copley Fielding 1845
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, stopping out, scratching out and gum arabic
25.8 by 36.3cm., 10 by 14 ¼ in.
Copley Fielding moved from London to Brighton in 1829 and exhibited a large number of views on the South Downs from then until his death. He exhibited a number of views taken at or near Cuckfield at the Royal Watercolour Society in 1845 and 1846. Cuckfield is two miles west of Haywards Heath and fourteen miles north of Brighton.