Details
A Victorian stuffed fabric and card group
depicting four uniformed gentlemen, a policeman, guardsman, station master a footman and an old woman holding a broom and a Mocha ware mug of foaming ale, the faces detailed in pencil, signed and dated on the cut paper lining Made by Miss Gimbleu A.D. 1865, in a painted and glazed shadow box -- 17¾in. x 25in. (45 x 63.5cm), overall
depicting four uniformed gentlemen, a policeman, guardsman, station master a footman and an old woman holding a broom and a Mocha ware mug of foaming ale, the faces detailed in pencil, signed and dated on the cut paper lining Made by Miss Gimbleu A.D. 1865, in a painted and glazed shadow box -- 17¾in. x 25in. (45 x 63.5cm), overall
Literature
James Ayres, English Naive Painting 1750-1900, Thames and Hudson, London and N.Y. 1981. Pl.136.