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Monday, May 18, 2009

John Brett - The Hedger


Exhibited at the RA in 1860
signed and dated
35.5 x 27.5"
on the frame and stretcher inscribed "In dim recesses hyacinths drooped / and breadths of primroses lit the air." Angel in the House.

3 comments:

  1. Oliver Rackham writes: "Only one picture, John Brett's "The Hedger", is of a convincing wood, with stools of oak and ash (but the cataloguer calls them "birch"!) and in the foreground a woodbank with a man plashing a hedge on it.
    O. Rackham, "Woodlands", Collins, 2010

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  2. Thank you. I've read Oliver but didn't notice that. The Stonebreaker is also very real in that way.

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  3. why he entitled this oeuvre the hedger, this name doesn't haves any sense for what this works means.

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