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We went for a Picnic at Pott Shrigley
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
We went for a Picnic at Pott Shrigley
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'We went for a Picnic to Pott Shrigley on a/lovely Summers Day. As we drove along in/the wagonette Mother would say that she hoped/our favourite field wouldn't have cows/in it and all the ladies declared that/they couldn't eat those delicious sandwiches/with cows round them, and whatever/should we do if there was a Bull as/well, but when we got there the gate was/open, so everyone helped to unpack the/food and tie Fanny to a tree. It was June/and after tea we gathered bunches of Wild/Roses and honeysuckle and listened to the/Cuckoo calling. Coming home through the quiet/country lanes Mother, Aunt Mary & Aunt Frances/softly sang .. Now the Day is over, Stars begin to peep-/Birds and Beasts and Flowers, soon will/be asleep/and so were George and I and the year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley, 1973' (on a label attached to the backboard) and signed again and dedicated 'To Sheila/Happy Christmas/from/Helen Bradley/otherwise/Ma' (on the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
We went for a Picnic at Pott Shrigley
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'We went for a Picnic to Pott Shrigley on a/lovely Summers Day. As we drove along in/the wagonette Mother would say that she hoped/our favourite field wouldn't have cows/in it and all the ladies declared that/they couldn't eat those delicious sandwiches/with cows round them, and whatever/should we do if there was a Bull as/well, but when we got there the gate was/open, so everyone helped to unpack the/food and tie Fanny to a tree. It was June/and after tea we gathered bunches of Wild/Roses and honeysuckle and listened to the/Cuckoo calling. Coming home through the quiet/country lanes Mother, Aunt Mary & Aunt Frances/softly sang .. Now the Day is over, Stars begin to peep-/Birds and Beasts and Flowers, soon will/be asleep/and so were George and I and the year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley, 1973' (on a label attached to the backboard) and signed again and dedicated 'To Sheila/Happy Christmas/from/Helen Bradley/otherwise/Ma' (on the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Sheila Bradley.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Helen Bradley, Paintings of an Edwardian Childhood, Salford Art Gallery, Salford, 1973, unpaginated, illustrated.
Exhibited
Salford, Salford Art Gallery, Helen Bradley, Paintings of an Edwardian Childhood, September - October 1973, no. 45.
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