RICHARD PRATCHETT NOBLE (1814-1861) SUMMER AFTERNOON, HENDON Signed, inscribed on backboard, watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil, heightened with gum arabic 41 x 55cm. * The inscriptions on the backboard are faint and partially illegible: A Remembrance of a [unclear] afternoon/ at Hendon [unclear]/ R Pratchett Noble/ to his friend/ Henry Reynolds Esq. and, in another hand, Presented by his daughter Hero Reynolds to her dear friends Mr and Mrs Spooner/ of Clifton House Henwick as a token of esteem and affection/ Novr 1st 1883 ++ Good colour; needs a light clean