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拍品專文
Joshua Cristall exhibited a number of watercolours of woodmen. At the Old Water-Colour Society in 1807 he showed 'A woodcutter', in 1816 a 'Boy with Sticks, Windsor Forest', in 1818 'Barking Timber in Witchwood Forest, Oxfordshire', and in 1820 'Peasant Boy, Windsor Forest'.
The woodcutter in the present watercolour derives from a drawing of 1806 which is evidently a study for the present composition, and is inscribed 'Wood Cutter - near Seven Oaks' and dated 1806. This was exhibited by Spink in 1994. A very similar composition, featuring the same woodman in the same attitude, but with his wife and two children added to the background, was once with the Fine Art Society.
The woodcutter in the present watercolour derives from a drawing of 1806 which is evidently a study for the present composition, and is inscribed 'Wood Cutter - near Seven Oaks' and dated 1806. This was exhibited by Spink in 1994. A very similar composition, featuring the same woodman in the same attitude, but with his wife and two children added to the background, was once with the Fine Art Society.