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This monochromatic landscape is executed in sepia watercolour with white gouache highlights on textured, cold-pressed paper. The composition depicts a rugged mountainous valley, likely a scene from the Scottish Highlands or the English Lake District, featuring a fast-flowing rocky stream in the foreground flanked by deciduous trees and autumnal scrub. Two birds of prey are rendered in flight over the valley floor between steep mountain slopes. The work is signed in the lower right corner J.W. Liddell in a dark brown pigment. The style is characteristic of late 19th or early 20th-century British topographical landscape painting, emphasizing atmosphere through a limited palette.
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