Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

A gift from the artist to Beatrix M. Craig, May 1945, from whom acquired by Victor Waddington, London

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin 1993, no.103, as Landscape.

The sheet is sound and is laid down on card. There are two punch holes along the left edge where the work was held in its original sketchbook and there is some minor surface dirt to the edges otherwise in good original condiiton. Held in a simple painted and gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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The present work is from a sketch book of 1898 and bears marked similarites both in size and composition to another sketchbook of the same year that is inscribed on the cover 'Finished at Burton Port 1898' (see Pyle, op.cit, no.84-97). Yeats vistied Burtonport on the West Coast of Donegal in August 1898 and it is highly likely that he also executed the present work there. He always carried sketchbooks around with him wherever he travelled, recording the landscapes and people around him to use in future compositions.