Beschreibung:

Domestic Architecture. Gabled house with dog, 1844, watercolour with pen & ink, laid down on later card, depicting the front facade of a clapboard house with red tiled roof, two projecting gables, and leaded casements, an upper window with the face of a woman visible inside, cottage garden in front of house, with cat, plant theatre, large topiary yew clipped to form two arches, and wooden paling fence and gate, dog beside cobbled lane in foreground, ink signature 'O. Small' lower left, and initials 'O.D.' with date 1844 lower right, tip of lower right blank corner torn away, 15 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 ins), framed and glazed, backboard with reproduction of obscured early manuscript on verso of picture 'Charles Small of Charr[...?] was Born in this House in the year of Our Lord 1794 and lived in it till the year 1850' (Qty: 1)