JOHN WILLIAM NORTH A.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH 1842-1924) A GEORGIAN MANSION, HERTFORDSHIRE

Signed ‘JWN ARA / 1916’ and inscribed ‘The citizen sleeps snug and snug as a bug in a rug,' watercolour and scratching out

14.3cm x 12.7cm (5.5in x 5in)

Provenance: Abbott & Holder via Phillips, March 1980.

Exhibited: London, Old Watercolour Society, 1916, no. 192

Note: There is an artist’s label to the reverse – No. 4 and address (Washford under Taunton), as well as a Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour’s label (256?).