Dimensions framed: 121.5 x 147.7 cm (47 7/8 x 58 1/8 in.) Kate Lowry has noted: Viewed in store. The painting has a gilt frame of a style contemporary with the work. Unglazed and not backed. Support: Original canvas is a medium weight simple weave linen and this has been recently relined onto a similar weight canvas using an animal glue adhesive. The original canvas turnovers have been removed, possibly at the time of a previous lining, and the work is now attached to a new stretcher through the new lining turnovers. The lining and its attachment to the stretcher are in good condition. Accessory support: Not original. Dates from recent relining treatment. A seven-member pine stretcher in excellent condition with square mortice joints and provision for keying out. All keys tied. Stretcher not much keyed out. Dimensions of members: 80 mm (w) x 20 mm (t) slightly bevelled at inside edges. Distinguishing marks: A section of timber bearing a wax seal has been removed from an earlier stretcher and embedded in the central member of this new stretcher. It bears the letters 'I' (or 'J') ' L' with a crest above, possibly a dragon. There are no other marks or labels on the stretcher reverse. Two other Sotheby's labels on the frame reverse refer to the Sotheby's December 2021 sale. Ground: A smooth, oil ground, pale pink in colour underlies the whole painting and is particularly visible in the sky and around the tree at the right of composition. The foreground darks are under-painted a deep transparent brown. Paint film: Oil medium. The painting of the sky down to the distant mountains, leaving a ridge of impasto on the horizon, and the reserve of unpainted ground visible alongside the tree trunk and its branches, as well as around the masses of foliage, are typical of Wilson's style of paint application. The foreground figures to the left of centre are better realised than many of Wilson's landscape figures. Retouchings: Under UV light recent retouching over the present varnish film reveals two old damages to the paint and ground, one to the left of the roadside shrine, and the other through the neck of the standing figure of a man in the foreground. There are also minor retouches to drying cracks in centre sky towards the horizon and in the foreground around the rock and fallen logs towards the right of the composition. Apart from these defects the paint film appears to be in good condition. Surface film: The painting looks to have been recently cleaned, revarnished and retouched. The varnish film is in excellent condition. Condition: The work is generally in excellent condition. Conclusion: A very good example of the best of Wilson's work.
