The Old Forge at Knaresborough

This drawing is one of the series of watercolours executed by Nicholson of Knaresborough and was numbered '14' on the original backing paper. A companion drawing is in the British Museum (BM. 1816.5.10.925 LB3) and is illustrated in M. Hardie, ed. D. Snelgrove, J. Mayne and B. Taylor, Watercolour Painting in Britain: III: The Victorian Period, London, 1968, vol. 3, p. 254.