Unlined, one key has dropped out and is stuck between canvas and stretcher at reverse. Slighly slack tension.

There is an old tear to the canvas, which has a piece of tape stuck over it at the reverse. At the face you can see two punctures to the canvas, the largest 1cm approx, and there is a surrounding area of loss of paint and ground (see images).

There is a network of brittle age craquelure and impact cracks, fairly largescale, including those associated with stretcher bars, diagonal ones across the corner. Slightly cupped and raised mostly in areas of thicker paint such as the sky (see image in raking light). Here there are a few sharp raised points where the paint and ground are lifting from the canvas, but mostly secure. There are a few further patches of sharp, raised and actively flaking paint, with tiny associated losses. There are three such patches in the blue trousers and a patch to the house on the right.

There are a few minor scattered unrestored losses: one to the bottom right corner below signature, and two in the group of birds to the left of the tower. There is one small sharp flaked loss in the flowers in the girl's hair.

Possibly some minor thinning/abrasion of the paint in the blue trousers? See images.

There is an old yellowed, slighly opaque varnish, with yellow varnish visible pooled in the troughs of the paint (see image of Donkey's nose). There is further old ingrained varnish/dirt visible in the blue of the sky.

There has been some minor rubbing in frame rebate and a loss by the rebate in the top right corner.

There are scattered dark surface accretions and fly spotting, including one brown/white one in the cheek of the man (see images).

The varnish is slighly opaque and a slighly matte/uneven varnish, and likely a layer of surface dirt.

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