Work at the Old Woad Mill
James Doyle Penrose (Mitchelstown, Dublin 1864 – Bognor Regis 1932)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1885 - 1932
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 750 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781645
Summary
Oil painting on canvas. Work at the Old Woad Mill, by James Doyle Penrose (Mitchelstown, Dublin 1864 – Bognor Regis 1932), signed: bottom left: J. Doyle Penrose. Three girls are occupied in different stages of preparing woad. Another version of this picture is in the Wisbech Museum, which also has two further pictures of Woad gathering and processing.
Makers and roles
James Doyle Penrose (Mitchelstown, Dublin 1864 – Bognor Regis 1932), artist