Further Images
| Medium | Watercolour on paper |
| Signed | Signed lower left |
| Size | 12.00" × 15.00" (30.5cm × 38.1cm) |
| Dated | c. 1845 |
| Condition | Very good original condition |
| Provenance | Private collection - London The painting is accompanied by a confirmation letter from the V&A Museum in London |
| Literature | This work was authenticated by Lionel Lambourne the eminent expert on the works of Richard Doyle and the curator of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London Mr Lambourne noted....... "... it is a powerful and imaginative example - depicting an old poacher encountering will o'the wisps while wending his way home, who try and lead him into a marshy bog, to the alarm of his two dogs. I would think that it was quite an early work dating from the mid 1840's while he was still very influenced by W H Brookes illustrations to Keighley's Fairy Stories of Southern Ireland." |
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