Home Guard: Shoeing 'Orses
One of a set of fourteen watercolours of the Home Guard
Date: 1941
Inscriptions: ll: Gilbert Spencer 1941. Inscribed: “Can’t you stand up?”, “No! N’more could you, if you’d been shoeing ‘orses since you was fourteen”
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (1); Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (134); Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn; private collection.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3, illus. p. 252
Date: 1941
Inscriptions: ll: Gilbert Spencer 1941. Inscribed: “Can’t you stand up?”, “No! N’more could you, if you’d been shoeing ‘orses since you was fourteen”
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (1); Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (134); Abbot Hall 2024
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn; private collection.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3, illus. p. 252