About this artwork

In 1879 Guthrie, Walton and Crawhall spent the summer at Rosneath on the Clyde coast. This was the first of a number of trips they made sketching in the countryside. They chose to concentrate on depicting scenes of everyday life such as country lanes, field workers and cabbage patches. The artists’ close relationship is apparent in their letters to each other, which are illustrated with anecdotal tales and comical sketches. This little caricature is the result of a drawing game that the artists would often play called “Heads, Bodies and Legs”. Each artist would draw a segment of the body and then would turn over the sheet so that the next person could not see the image that had gone before. This one is of a strangely proportioned man wearing a top-hat and great-coat, carrying a fishing rod.

Updated before 2020

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Sir James Guthrie

Sir James Guthrie