1904
54.6×72.4cm, watercolour
Inscription: signed ‘Frank Brangwyn’ and dated 1904
Standard reference: Bunt lists this work 3 times in his catalogue, as numbers 118, 119 and 734. The Musee d’Orange work (Bunt 119) is in fact one of the Brangwyn Portfolio reproductions
Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum (E286-1998)
Ill: Brangwyn Portfolio 32 (33×44.2cm). Shaw-Sparrow, Prints & Drawings by Frank Brangwyn, John Lane, The Bodley Head London 1919 facing p88. N M Lazareva, Frenk Brengvin, Izobrazit 1978 plate 74. Frank Lewis produced facsimiles of the work.
Shaw-Sparrow suggests that it was a study for the etching of same name (Gaunt 52) but different composition. Also similar to Scaffolding No 1, 1919. Peter Norris attributes it to Knighton-Hammond in his book on that artist (his reproduction is greenish tones). There is scaffolding to left and hazy middle distance, workers in the foreground, two trees background right, and one trunk forming a dividing vertical to left. The colours are grey-blue and buff and the painting is very delicate, gentle and emotive of a hazy day.