A felt collage picture

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A felt collage picture
The Postman, by George Smart, on sugar paper, in a glazed ebonised frame with giltwood slip, early 19th century -- 15¾in. x 17in. (40 x 43.2cm), overall

Literature

James Ayres, British Folk Art, Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976. Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1977. P.86.
James Ayres, English Naive Painting 1750-1900, Thames and Hudson, London and N.Y. 1981. Pl. 140.
James Ayres, British Folk Art at Freshford Manor, the magazine Antiques, N.Y. June 1971. Fig. 6.

Lot Essay

A surviving collage identifies the figure in The Postman collages as 'Old Bright aged 87'. The felt laid onto a sugar paper ground, neither watercolour decorated or printed indicates the present examples as being one of the earliest of its type.

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