Unlined, with an unusual stretcher. Fair tension.

See images in normal, raking and reflected light. Brittle age, impact and stretcher bar cracking throughout. Some cupping and elevation in the dark passages, but more pronounced in the very thick paint of the sky which is elevated and has had a history of flaking and attempted consolidation to treat this (old adhesive and varnish has seeped through to the canvas at the rear). There is still some active unsecured flaking in places. The surface has a lumpy plane in places, particularly top left, associated with the very thick layers of paint pulling at the canvas. Some of the flakes appear to have been crushed slightly. There has been some minor retouching to flaked areas.

There are fairly open drying cracks, too, in the darker passages of the painting which appear to have been suppressed by retouching. There are scattered minor retouched losses, plus a larger unfilled retouching to a damage in the middle of the trees top left of cottage. Possible minor abrasion to the dark brown layers to the left bank.

There is a thick old varnish layer, yellowed and pooled thick in places. INgrained dirt, and dark flake of paint stuck in the paint surfact top left, and surface dust and accretions.

Examined in frame.

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