The Homeward Journey
signed and dated 'W.J.Webb/1869' (lower left); inscribed 'The Homeward Journey/W.J.Webb./Purchased from the Exhibition/of the Society of British Artists/Suffolk St./Pall Mall/W. Pearce' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
34 x 24.5cm (13 3/8 x 9 5/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Alan B. Gateley.
Thence by descent
Anon. sale, Roseberys, London, 13 September 2011, lot 701.
Maas Gallery, London, British Pictures, 2012, cat. no. 41.
Sale, Sotheby's, London, Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz, 20-27 May, 2020, lot 52.
Private collection (acquired from the above by the present owner).

Exhibited
London, Society of British Artists, 1870, no. 499.

For a similar version of the present composition, painted as an oval, A Camel Drover see Sotheby's London, Gianni Versace at Villa Fontanelle in Molstrasio, 18 March 2009, lot 369.

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