Near Folkestone.
£100.00
Date
1857
Synopsis
View looking towards folkestone of a figure walking along the beach at the warren. martello tower no.1 is seen on the hill above.
Item Description
10.5 x7.5 inches. Original watercolour on paper. Some light foxing but otherwise very good. Very little is known about the Reverend GE Howman; he changed his name, probably in 1874, to Rev. George Ernest Little, after an inheritance of lands at Newbold Pacey (Warwickshire) where he died on 3 August 1878. He was rector of Barnsley (Gloucestershire) and headmaster of Saint Nicholas Sarum Hospital (Wiltshire). He had at least one daughter Louisa, who married in 1852. We know of a strange watercolor by him, dated 1829 and kept in the Philpot Museum in Lyme Regis (Dorset), less for its artistic interest than as a very probable discovery of a pterodactyl fossil.
[Stock No. 28766]
