Found Drowned, Shepton Mallet, Somerset 'Take Her Up Tenderly, Lift Her with Care Fashioned so Slenderly, Young and so Fair' Thomas Hood, 'the Bridge of Sighs'

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Found Drowned, Shepton Mallet, Somerset 'Take Her Up Tenderly, Lift Her with Care Fashioned so Slenderly, Young and so Fair' Thomas Hood, 'the Bridge of Sighs'

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£3,500

Signed

Signed and dated '1930 Jan'
Signed, dated '1930 Jan', and inscribed with title and 'Found in the canal, background. Shepton Mallet' below mount
Inscribed with quotation on backboard

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour

Dimensions

6 ¾ x 6 inches

Provenance

The S R Badmin Estate, and by descent

Exhibited

The Fine Art Society, March 1945;
'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery March-April 2015, No 55;
'S R Badmin RWS RE: Watercolours, Drawings & Etchings', Chris Beetles Gallery, June-July 2022

'Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashion'd so slenderly,
Young, and so fair!
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) The Bridge of Sighs