Pencil; reverse: sketch of child at gate; inscribed in pencil: see over/ W Collins/ 1788-1835 (H. 9.5cm, W. 15.2cm)
These are preparatory studies for Collins’ well-known painting Rustic Civility, which was exhibited at the RA in 1832 and is now at Chatsworth. Collins painted a near-replica for John Sheepshanks the following year which is now in the V&A.
Provenance: Mauv Galleries, February 1962; Major-General Sir John D’Arcy Anderson and Lady Elizabeth Anderson, by whom given to Winchester College, 1993