Model of A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley by Rowland Emett

Made:
circa 1983

Model of A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley by Rowland Emett, scale approximately 1-inch to 1-foot, about 1983. Depicts eccentric scenes on Emett's fantastical Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway with the locomotive 'Wild Goose' visiting Cowparsley Meadow, Far Tottering, Wisteria Halt, Shrimphaven Sands, Twittering Woods and Oyster Creek. Enclosed in a Perspex case.

Details

Category:
Railway Models
Object Number:
2021-1696
Materials:
adhesive, cotton (fibre), paper (fibre product), textile and wood (unidentified)
Measurements:
750 x 380 x 510 mm (overall)
type:
a quiet afternoon in the cloud cuckoo valley, artist's sketch model
credit:
Bonhams

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