Kate Lowry has noted: Oil on plain weave canvas, medium weight. Glue relined. Stretcher size: 646 x 761 mm. Painting size 24 ½ x 29 ins. Top and bottom turnovers survive at face of stretcher, and these are unprimed. Ground is a pink/brown, even coating. Warm colour of ground gives a very red tone to the whole composition especially in figures and middle ground. Wide and extensive drying cracks present in foreground. In the trees against the sky there is no obvious reserve to the foliage, but there is a slight reserve visible around the lower branches. Foliage in middle ground quite sloppily painted. The work has a good provenance via Oldfield Bowles. Not signed or dated although the letters 'R' and 'M' are present lower right and have been construed as a monogram in the past.
