Maverick Mist

Study for The Thirsty Drover
Oil on paper (1856)
Francis William Edmonds

Outside a thatched cottage (partially visible at far left), a man on horseback receives a pitcher of water from a small girl with pigtails. The well form which the girl has drawn the water as well as her mother at her washing and a younger child fill the left side of the image. Baskets of washing and chickens pecking the ground are seen at center foreground. In the distance is a hilly landscape, and at right, another man on horseback driving cattle his visible.

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