Peat Cutting, Cefn Coch, Montgomeryshire
1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Peat Cutting, Cefn Coch, Montgomeryshire is a 1943 watercolor by Mildred E. Eldridge, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a lone person walking along a narrow stone path through dry, golden grass. The path cuts through a rolling, rocky hillside, with patches of snow still visible on the higher ground. The sky is pale and soft, blending into the distant hills. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to capture the texture of the grass and rocks, making the scene feel rough yet peaceful. The person’s bright clothing stands out against the muted earth tones. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Mildred E. Eldridge dated 1943 depicts a man and a woman cutting peat squares from the hilly moorland at Cefn Coch in Montgomeryshire. Commissioned for the Recording Britain project, the work was part of a wartime scheme to document places and traditions considered at risk from changes brought by war and modernisation.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Mildred E. Eldridge painted the hills and barns of 1940s Wales in watercolours. She left us five small scenes of rural life, each titled by the place it shows: a stone barn in Llanrhaeadr, peat cutters near Cefn Coch,…
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