Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)

Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)

The Cottage Door

Signed H. Allingham (lower right)

Watercolour with scratching out

27.8 x 23cm; 11 x 9in

Provenance:

Possibly with Thos. Agnew & Sons, Manchester;

Possibly Sir George Johnson MD;

Christie's, London, 20 October 1981, lot 183;

Richard Hagen Gallery , Broadway by 1982, where purchased by the present private collector, 1983

Literature:

Ina Taylor, Helen Allingham's England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life (Webb & Bower Ltd, 1990), p.107

Exhibited:

Possibly, London, St. Jude's School House, 1883, no.155 (as 'Feeding Rabbits', lent by Sir George Johnson MD)

We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her assistance cataloguing the present work.