Watercolor on paper, signed and dated at lower right "H. Cresswell 1891," still life with bird's nest and flower strewn mossy bank, matted and framed under glass.

SS 13 x 19.75 in.; DOA 21 x 27.5 in.

Clark Art Gallery (founded 1923), Raleigh, North Carolina

Ms. Henrietta Creswell exhibited flower paintings at the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists, New Water-Colour Society, Grosvenor Gallery, and elsewhere. The daughter of a doctor in Winchmore Hill, 10 miles outside of London, Cresswell wrote a book about the village and the coming of the railway to Winchmore Hill. The hill she remembered was as bright and fresh as toddling childhood; a blend of clarity and colour, like a mix of paint and transparency. Even the air seemed brightly painted. It was like a land of long ago. What is now north London was then all rickyards and honeysuckle, wild hops, wild roses, thickset hedges [95/96] and forget-me-nots.

$600 - 900