There are many major paintings, studies, and smaller sketches of animals in the Bridgetown Series. This one is of a rabbit that the artist’s daughter Sarah bought at the Lawrencetown County Fair, where he was a Grand Champion; he lived the good life with a friend or two in a splendid large cage behind the barn. Sometimes he escaped, but he never went far and always allowed himself to be captured again. This painting is early in the series; it is a fully developed drybrush watercolour built over numerous free washes. The background is established in wash with a certain amount of drybrush as well.

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