Robert Cresswell Boak (1875-1949), A Cabin Home in Erin's Isle Plants Framed in black wooden box

Framed in black wooden box frame

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Robert Cresswell Boak (1875-1949), A Cabin Home in Erin's Isle Plants Framed in black wooden boxRobert Cresswell Boak was a Donegal artist who settled in London in the late 1920s. Prior to that he exhibited a number of times with the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. This vibrant, beautifully hand coloured etching depicts a romanticised version of a 'cabin home' on the west coast of Ireland. Sentimental as it may be, it captures a scene that no doubt existed: a simple thatched cottage, a woman feeding chickens, a parked horse buggy, bales of