Study for The Progress of Husbandry: Breaking up Jethro Tull's Horse Drill

One of six oil studies on panel for the large oil on linen painting, The Progress of Husbandry (c. 1964, Tate). All six were exhibited at Reading 1964 (91a-f) but are now untraced. Breaking up Jethro Tull’s Drill is the only one of which we have an image, from a photograph in Gilbert Spencer’s archive. The composition is replicated almost exactly in the finished painting.

Date: 1963-4
Tags: Figures, Agricultural, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on panel
Height (mm): 254
Width (mm): 355
Location: Unknown
Exhibition History: Reading 1964 (91b); FAS 1974 (47)
Provenance: G.A. Hopkinson
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 309