Water colour
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper and watercolour paint
Measurements
113 x 176 mm
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.11
Summary
A vibrant pen and water colour picture of two soldiers charging with swords on horseback through a battleground with cannons firing. The saddle cloth of the rider to the right bears the initials: GAG. The saddle cloth of the rider to the left bears the initials: W.B.P.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.