Harold Harvey

Purchased by the great aunt of the present owner c.1910

Original canvas. Two minor lines of frame gilt in the lower left and right corners, otherwise the work appears in good overall condition. The surface is dirty and the work should benefit rom cleaning. Under ultraviolet light there appear to be no signs of retouching. Held in a gilt plaster frame.
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Previously unrecorded, the present work is a wonderful new discovery from Harvey's oeuvre. The location may be the Coombe river, which rises in the hills above Newlyn and flows down through a wooded area to the sea between the fishing port and Penzance. It bears similarities to Stanhope Forbes's Across the Stream, 1897 at this location, which also shows a wooded glade with a river falling in steps through it and two horses drinking in the middle distance.

We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.