Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & Bridge A Shelf There’s an underdrawing in pencil

There’s an underdrawing in pencil which has been mostly drawn over in ink

A few minor paint losses but the paint seems broadly stable

you’ll see a lady picking flowers by the river and holding a posy

The project was initiated when it became evident that the collection would need to be sold - eventually to Catherine of Russia in 1778

he took off along the beach but the soldier raised his musket and shot him in the neck

Joshua Anderson Hague, Landscape With Watermill & Bridge A Shelf There’s an underdrawing in pencilThis absorbing view of a mill by British artist Joshua Anderson Hague (1850 1916), a contributor to the Manchester School of Painters, captures the energy of cascading water with an array of impressionistic marks. Through a clever composition, the whole scene ebbs and flows from top to bottom, zigzagging its way from the clouds to the rocks by our feet. Hes describing a working landscape, the active mill fed by its environment. You can almost hear the