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A felt collage and watercolour picture, second quarter 19th century
The Earth Stopper, by George Smart, depicting a gentleman with his horse and dogs being startled by a chimney sweep and his donkey, within a wooded landscape, with later painted slip and glazed giltwood frame, the reverse with two printed labels, of George Smart, and the story of The Earth Stopper -- 16¼ x 20¾in. (41 x 52.7cm.) overall
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The note on the reverse reads: The business of an Earth Stopper, the Night previous to a Day's Sport, is to stop up the Fox's Earth whilst he is out feeding. The above gentle Swain is supposed to be on his way home, when by a sudden turn of the Lane, he is brought plump upon what he conceives to be nothing more or less than the D***L, but which in fact is a simple Sweep and his Donkey.
The Earth Stopper, by George Smart, depicting a gentleman with his horse and dogs being startled by a chimney sweep and his donkey, within a wooded landscape, with later painted slip and glazed giltwood frame, the reverse with two printed labels, of George Smart, and the story of The Earth Stopper -- 16¼ x 20¾in. (41 x 52.7cm.) overall
See Front Cover Illustration
The note on the reverse reads: The business of an Earth Stopper, the Night previous to a Day's Sport, is to stop up the Fox's Earth whilst he is out feeding. The above gentle Swain is supposed to be on his way home, when by a sudden turn of the Lane, he is brought plump upon what he conceives to be nothing more or less than the D***L, but which in fact is a simple Sweep and his Donkey.
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
James Ayres English Naive Painting 1750-1900 Thames & Hudson 1980, illustrated as plate 92
James Ayres British Folk Art Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976. Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1981, plate 140.
Margaret Gill Proffessor of Perculiar Art Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Publication.
Another copy of this picture and other examples of George Smarts work, The Goosewoman and The Postman, were sold in these rooms as part of the Judkyn Pratt Collection of British Folk Art, 8th November 1995 (lots 53-57). James Ayres notes that The Earth Stopper is possibly the only work of Smarts which is adapted from an engraved source as it bears a likeness to Nathan Drake's The Earth Stopper engraved by V.Green in 1767.
James Ayres English Naive Painting 1750-1900 Thames & Hudson 1980, illustrated as plate 92
James Ayres British Folk Art Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976. Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1981, plate 140.
Margaret Gill Proffessor of Perculiar Art Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Publication.
Another copy of this picture and other examples of George Smarts work, The Goosewoman and The Postman, were sold in these rooms as part of the Judkyn Pratt Collection of British Folk Art, 8th November 1995 (lots 53-57). James Ayres notes that The Earth Stopper is possibly the only work of Smarts which is adapted from an engraved source as it bears a likeness to Nathan Drake's The Earth Stopper engraved by V.Green in 1767.