Ossett, Yorks

Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953 · 1905

A small town dominated by a modern Gothic church with a lofty spire, which stands nearly in the middle of the plate. Towards the left a smaller and older church. Roof of church almost unshaded ; white patches in the meadow in the foreground. This meadow is shut in by bushes towards the left ; a horse is grazing with its head to the right near a shed, and a two-wheeled cart is indistinctly drawn by a wall to right of the shed. One proof, rich in burr, and extremely different in handling from the somewhat laboured later states. The height of the Ossett subject itself is 97 mm. ; it is bounded by two lines ruled across the bottom. On the lower part of the plate is an unfinished subject : one span of the Old Bridge at Ayr (Dodgson number 187), with houses above it (limits of work, 83x88). This subject remained unaltered during the progress of the work on Ossett.