Five Cotswold x Hampshire Down Shearlings

Antique Painting: Five Cotswold x Hampshire Down Shearlings

Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches.

Signed H G Walter (1800)'

This is an early painting showing fat prize sheep in a landscape with turnips that they are being fed to the foreground. Turnips were the revolutionary new feed that enabled farm livestock to be fattened quickly throughout the year.

PAINTING ID: 650
ARTIST:

H. G. Walter

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