The interior of a forge

Details

Philip L. Hobbs (b. 1953)
The interior of a forge
signed 'PL Hobbs' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.)

Exhibited

London, The Mall Galleries, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, 1987, lent by the artist.

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Lot Essay

Hobbs was born in Yorkshire and lives and works in Ambleside, Cumbria. The present watercolour was executed in 1987 and forms part of a series depicting a blacksmiths forge on Blue Hill in Ambleside between 1983 and 1999. Hobbs exhibits at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

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