Signed with initials and dedicated u.r.: to Daphne Grierson/from EB
Watercolour over pen and ink and pencil, 49 by 62.5cm (19 ¼ by 24 ½ ins)

Provenance: a gift from the artist to the painter Daphne Grierson

Later in life Bawden made annual trips to Cornwall where he stayed in Rose Cottage in St Ewe, some five miles from St Austell. In the churchyard at All Saint’s he found a gravestone of his namesake which read “Edward Bawden, died 29^th October 1894. Aged 68 years. His End Was Peace.” There is a photograph by his friend Christopher Brown of Bawden leaning on it. Malcolm Yorke has written of late watercolours like the present work: “These landscapes of Bawden’s maturity have come an astonishing distance from those early tentative ones he made sitting beside Ravilious… Now he works big and bold, taking liberties with his compositions… he sits close to a building so its perspective soars away from him… (or) to draw every flint on a church exterior or to put a square outline round every leaf… These are the playful but highly effective strategies of a man in total control of his medium.” (Malcolm Yorke, Edward Bawden and His Circle, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2007, pp.240-41)