SAMUEL COLMAN | Sketching the Ruins of Tintern Abbey

Lined. The surface presents well. Isolated areas of stable craquelure are faintly visible in the brown pigments. Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. There are scattered, small retouches and some finely applied inpainting to address prior craquelure in the lower half of the composition and the foliage. More complex areas include a 3 inch wide area of brushy inpainting at lower left, a thin diagonal repair in the trees at center right, and an 'L' shaped area of older fluorescence at the right lower edge. There is an 'X' shaped repair at upper left in the foliage atop the abbey wall and scattered dashes of retouching in the sky.
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