FAMAG 1000.20
An antique Netherlandish mid seventeenth-century cabinetmaker's frame with compound bolection profile in stained and polished fruitwood, gilded sight edge; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited. (r)
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Richardson, John Thomas (1860-1942): The Bar Pool and Boat Building Yard at low tide, Falmouth, signed and dated 1912, oil on card, 19.5 x 30.5 cms. Presented by the artist's wife 1939.
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This frame would have been the historic solution to framing such a small landscape, to be hung in a large group of similar small works in a study or parlour during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The width of the moulding and the bolection profile help to isolate the picture from its surroundings, project it forward to the spectator, and enhance the recession within the landscape. At the same time, the polished wood gently echoes the prevailing warm browns of the painting, and acts as a foil to the bright diffused light of the Cornish sky.