Pencil drawing
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
183 mm (H)223 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872983
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (ornamental drawing); on the left side two shepherds who are following their flock of sheep that is going a way into the depth of the picture; behind the shepherds riders, all going to the left; in the foreground an old man on a donkey, in the second row a woman with two naked kids on a camel, other children following her, the another camel[?], standing woman, another riding woman with an child tied on her back, on the right margin; the head of another camel; in the background a landscape with mountains.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley.
Marks and inscriptions
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Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist