A summer's day in Richmond Park

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George Sidney Shepherd, N.W.S. (1784-1862)
A summer's day in Richmond Park
signed 'G. Shepherd.' (lower right, on a pathway)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out, on two joined sheets
12½ x 59¼ in. (31.8 x 155 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Shepherd is perhaps best known for the series of London scenes that he executed in collaboration with his elder son, Thomas Homer, for aquatints to be published in Ackermann's Repository of the Arts beginning in 1813. Whilst these were on a large scale, they do not compare to this present watercolour, whose subject matter and impressive size suggest that it may have been executed as a private commission.

Another view of Richmond was exhibited at the New Water-colour Society in 1838 entitled Richmond Hill, no. 282.

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