Featured study of chubby handed boy

see what i did there

theres a new young seller shop in town , sweetest lad you ever met (18?)

a bit of everything really

all the paintings were a pound each

picked 4 that i liked (photo one just for frame)

i gave him 20 for the 4 (i still think i did alright)

he's obviously on the spectrum somewhere (all he ever says is yeah really slowly but sweetly)
(doubled checked he was happy with deal, think thrice

anyway, i quite like the drawing anyway(even the chubby hand)

 

I'm guessing all but the photo are about the same age. One print is dated 1845 and the gent looks ..1870s-ish? I'd say you did OK.

 

The boy with tying up the wheat sheaf has the most angelic expression on his face...Heavenly!

 

yeah the 1845 one is a painting as well evey

 

Is the boy a drawing or a lithograph would you guess ?

 

Here's your 'Poultry (Market) Cross Salisbury', looks like they heavily restored it ? From around 1450-no wonder it needed a roof job !

 

If a lithograph, is isn't modern enough to display half-tone dots. I'll 'guess' it's a drawing...will wishin' make it so?

 

100% drawing mate, you can see the drawn lines in the light

 

i can see why someone would think litho though maybe part of a sketch pad with that green card backing

 

oh and it smudges

 

wonder if the flower behind him is significant to that?

 

or significant

 

Flowers for the last 10K+ yrs have been mondo symbolic (except for now !), wouldve also been in Georgian/Regency & Victo eras I believe.
PS-Perhaps a memento mori memorializing a lost child 'reaped' in the flower of his youth, but now 'at play in the fields of the Lord' ?

 

Love the one of the poultry cross. I've seen that style used quite a lot by 20th century artists. Monochrome with a single coloured item standing out. Seems they were a bit ahead of their time.

 

i know what you mean bud, also reminds me of grand tour type brooches

its the emptyness of it i guess, and in contrast to the modern pic, 2 different worlds

 

just realised i can put the drawing into the photograph framed one

 

Can you get a better photo of the siggy on that one? Looks like you took it in your sock drawer.

 

thats probably why its disintegrating

yeah wil try bud, its quite a light mark

 

Looks like a scene out of Dr Who now.