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Evelyn Dunbar:
Sketch of man carrying a hay-tedder
Framed (ref: 9018)
Pen and ink, paper laid on card. 3½ x 4¾ in. (9 x 12 cm)

Tags: Evelyn Dunbar ink pen and ink Evelyn Dunbar at The Watts Gallery

Provenance: Roger Folley; Alasdair Dunbar; Hammer Mill Oast Collection

Typical of many of the sheets forming part of Dunbar’s residual studio - the Hammer Mill Oast Collection - discovered half a century and more after her 1960 death, one-off studies like this sketch of a man carrying a hay-tedder or similar farming implement, tease the Dunbar scholar because there are no exterior references and there is very little by which to identify it. Probably this is a sketch, subsequently unused, for Dunbar’s pen and ink illustrations for Derek Chapman’s A Farm Dictionary (Evans Bros., London, 1953).

We are grateful to Christopher Campbell-Howes for assistance.