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Bell Inn
Purchased 1940
architecture
England
England, East
Essex
garden
garden structures
Great Bardfield
house
places
places of entertainment
public house / bar
residential
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
wall
paper unique watercolour
The Bell Inn
support: 457 × 546 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05156</b> THE BELL INN 1939
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden 1939’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 18×21 1/2 (43×57).
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Michael Rothenstein, <i>Looking at Paintings</i>, 1947, p.30, repr. p.31 (in colour).</p>
<p>‘The Bell Inn was painted from the garden of Town House, Gt. Bardfield.... The houses remain unchanged, the only difference being that the inn sign now hangs in a new position’ (letter from the artist, 26 October 1956).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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architecture England England, East Essex garden garden structures Great Bardfield house places places of entertainment public house / bar residential townscape townscapes / man-made features tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions wall