5 Warnford Water (First Variation) Signed lower left: Hitchens; signed and inscribed “Warnford Water,/ (First Variation)”/ by Ivon Hitchens/ Greenleaves/ Petworth Sussex on a label attached to the stretcher Oil on canvas: 18 × 43 in / 46 × 109.5 cm Frame size: 26 ¾ × 52 in / 67.9 × 132.1 cm Painted in 1959 Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London Mr J Rose, UK Exhibited: London, Waddington Galleries, Ivon Hitchens, The Warnford Water Series and Five Other Paintings, June 1960, cat. no. 6, illus. in colour Literature: W.H. Gardener (ed.), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and prose, Penguin Books, 1971, cover detail
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