A Carriers Stable

by William after George Morland Ward

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare proof before title of this fine rural scene after Morland, the master of English genre painting. A wonderful rural genre scene in which love darts out and is acknowledged in an unlikely location, while the horses eat and a fellow worker snoozes. The young couple holds hands and share a long loving gaze beside an open stable door that seems to symbolize unconfined happiness and new possibilities. The whole story is rendered in a simple, understated way, in the which

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