Shortly after his return from Italy, Mackintosh extended his sketching holidays to England. He sketched in Suffolk in 1897 and revisited the West Country in 1898 and several times thereafter. The watercolor is one of the earliest that has come to light and should be compared with those of the Port Vendres period. Its overall greyness is caused by a wash of ultramarine (or cobalt) blue that was run over the whole picture after its completion -- a method encouraged by some teachers to produce an effect of harmony. Two sketches of an unidentified English village (possibly Worth Matravers, Dorset), executed during the Chelsea period (image A8 and A9)
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