Landscape study with two figures

Sir George Clausen RA (1852 - 1944)

RA Collection: Art

This small landscape sketch looks down towards distant fields where rows of dots presumably represent corn stooks. Two figures lightly suggested at the right and left foreground appear to be raking together mounds, probably of hay, although notes written on the verso suggest that they may be harvesting root vegetables.

On the verso of the sheet, Clausen uses the word 'wozzle', an old Lincolnshire dialect for 'wurzel'. The mangold-wurzel is a type of beet grown as fodder for farm animals. Clausen visited Lincoln on a number of occasions as it was the home of his brother-in-law, Alfred George Webste, and also of a major patron, Sharpley Bainbridge (1845-1921).