Mountainous Landscape
F. A. Winks
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Watercolour, pencil and chalk on paper
Measurements
310 x 410 x 15 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 740644
Caption
A wife's duties to tend to her husband and properly raise her children were considered the cornerstones of social stability by the Victorians. As a middle-class lady Florence was well educated and took cookery and sewing classes, as well as teaching Sunday school to ensure she could meet her duties later in married life. Florence was an artistic lady with many talents, here you can see one of her pencil drawings but there are also paintings and pastels by her throughout the house. Drawing and crafting, were seen as a gentile form of past time suitable to a middle-class lady which could also translate into practical life. This pencil drawing hangs in Walter’s Bedroom next to his bed, there is a second such picture hung in the Spare Back Bedroom. The coloured background would be bought already prepared and then Florence would have drawn over the top, possibly copying the images from one of her drawing books.
Summary
Watercolour and pencil and chalk on paper, Mountainous Landscape by F.A.Winks. Framed
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Makers and roles
F. A. Winks, artist