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Lot 624:
Description
A watercolor painting on paper with gouache highlights depicting a traditional English winter landscape. The composition features a lone shepherd herding a flock of sheep along a snow-covered lane. The scene is flanked by two dwellings: a modest stone cottage to the left and a larger half-timbered house with prominent chimneys to the right. Bare trees line the horizon under a pale, wintry sky. The work is executed in a representational style using a palette of blues, greys, and earthy ochre tones. It is signed in the lower left corner I.A. GILLIBRAND. The painting is presented in a double mount consisting of a cream top layer over a green inner border and is housed in a simple dark wood frame with a gilt inner slip.