Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8504
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Damaged trees on an avenue to Barnes Common
Date
1780
Creator
Edward Edwards (1738 - 1806, British) , Artist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 238mm
width (painting): 368mm
width (painting): 368mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure for the paper “Account of the hurricane that passed over Roehampton & parts adjacent in October 1780. Illustrated by four drawings made on the spot a few days after the storm”, by Edward Edwards. Landscape showing two surviving trees near Barnes Common with felled trees lying in the foreground. These are being inspected by a fashionable couple in outdoor clothes, with the male figure pointing to a tree root with a cane or walking stick. Barnes Poorhouse is visible on the horizon, which Edwards describes in his text as a new building [constructed in 1778]. The painting shows some superficial damage to roof and chimneys. The mount is initialled lower left “E.E. 1780” and inscribed lower right “No.3”.
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