The Mill Cottage, Harlech, North Wales

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JOSEPH EDWARD SOUTHALL, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1861-1944)
The Mill Cottage, Harlech, North Wales
signed with monogram, dated '1916' (lower right), with indistinct inscription 'The Mill Cottage, Harlech / (Tempera) / (12 12 0) / by JOSEPH SOUTHALL / Birmingham' (on the backboard) and further inscribed 'To J. Knewstub from / June 1922 / To commemorate / exhibition 1922' (on the artist's typed label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper
7 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (19.7 x 16.5 cm.)

Provenance

J. Knewstub.

Exhibited

London, Alpine Club, Paintings and Drawings in Tempera, Watercolour, Pastel, etc. by Joseph Southall, 1922, no. 2.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is one of a limited number of watercolours produced by Joseph Southall during the First World War. Born into a Quaker family, Southall was a pacifist and spent much of the war campaigning, and producing anti-war posters and cartoons. 1916 saw a major Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. As a member of the movement, Southall presented a very small selection of works at the exhibition, all relating to his pacifist beliefs.

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