摩爾

This sketch is only the faintest ghost and its subject cannot be confirmed. Finberg’s title must have been based on adjacent sketches of figures in open country on folios 2 verso–3 and 4 ( D07857–D07858 , D07860 ) and those of gun-dogs and sportsmen at the other end of the book.

The leaf is smudged with ink, apparently offset from inscriptions on an opposite leaf now removed from the book.

David Blayney Brown

July 2009 Read full