Scrubbing between Baths

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Scrubbing between Baths
inscribed 'Me scrubbing in the bathroom/between two of the baths./I say me not because there was any/thing particular in the fact beyond one specially important point: viz/That whenever I had been frequently/in a place employed on/some job I would eventually be-/come so in harmony with the place & job (it being regular) that at last I would discover happy homely places/in the most unlikely places. I have/only mentally to place myself between these baths & be scrubbing the floor to/at once feel inspired' (on the reverse)
pencil on paper, laid down
9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm.); 15 x 10 in. (40 x 27.3 cm.) overall

Lot Essay

At the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, Spencer depicts himself similarly scrubbing between baths in the composition Washing Lockers, (National Trust), 1929, (Bell 130j). As with many of the Burghclere panels, this composition was based on his experiences at the Beaufort War Hospital, near Bristol before August 1916 when he volunteered for service overseas. See catalogue note to lot 33.

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