Watercolour
Barbara Townsend (1842 - Mompesson House 1939)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, watercolour paint
Measurements
140 x 206 mm
Place of origin
Woolwich
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724099
Summary
Watercolour painting of a park in which ladies and gentlemen seated on benches look across to soldiers in blue and red uniforms and a military band. An inscription in pencil below the watercolour reads '??? ????? Band playing at Woolwich'. Within a bound album (MHS/P/58) containing other watercolours by Barbara Townsend. The album page is numbered 40. The number 77 is annotated in pencil below the bottom right-hand corner of the watercolour.
Marks and inscriptions
??? ????? Band playing at Woolwich
Makers and roles
Barbara Townsend (1842 - Mompesson House 1939), artist