Lot Essay
The finished painting, 'A Rescue at Dawn', was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1904, no. 61, and is illustrated in Royal Academy Pictures, 1904, p. 129
A preliminary charcoal sketch, together with the finished work, are illustrated in Mrs Lionel Birch's Stanhope A. Forbes, A.R.A., and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, A.R.W.S., London, 1906, p.p.105, 109
A preliminary charcoal sketch, together with the finished work, are illustrated in Mrs Lionel Birch's Stanhope A. Forbes, A.R.A., and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, A.R.W.S., London, 1906, p.p.105, 109