FAMAG 1923.18
Late sixteenth-/early seventeenth-century Italian cassetta frame with architrave profile, convex top rail and half-round astragal between flutes; flat frieze and astragal stepped to sight edge; finished with shades of blue and grey paint; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited (r).
About this work
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Richardson, John Thomas (1860-1942): The Orchard at Prislow, signed and dated 1910, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 71 cms. Presented to the corporation of Falmouth in 1923 by A.A. de Pass in memory of his sons.
More information about the frame
This is the same cassetta frame chosen for Richardson?s Cottage near Marlborough. Its classical simplicity, which functions for both paintings like a door into the landscape, has been given a completely different effect by replacing the parcel-gilding and black paint of the latter framing with matt grey and blue paint. The colours tone in with the lighter aspect and bluer shades of this spring day, as against the golden, late summer scene of Cottage near Marlborough; the modernity of the treatment of the present scene is also emphasised, in comparison with the timeless landscape of the other work.