Lot 1896
‡SIR PETER SCOTT (1909-1989)
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE DROPPING INTO THE FRESH MARSH - SNETTISHAM FRESH MARSH UNDER SNOW, FEB. 1929
Signed and dated 1929, watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
27.5 x 49.5cm.
* This skilful early work was drawn by Scott whilst he was still an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge. It seems that it was given (or sold) to a fellow student in 1930, the year before Scott graduated in History of Art.
Illustrated: Country Life, November 1929
Provenance: with T. C. Wyatt, Christ's College, Cambridge, May 1930; London, Christies, March 2nd, 1990, lot 81 (£2400); Private Collection, Sussex
