Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky weighted with chunks of wood

weighted with chunks of wood at either end

I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham

15 7/8” w x 11 1/8” t x 1 1/16” and in very good condition

The Band of Hope referred to here is a temperance organization for working-class children founded in Leeds in 1847

This painting has an Arts and Craft feel to me

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky weighted with chunks of woodFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of