most of his others, he had a personal connection to the site that he
was painting. It was created as a picture of his boyhood home in the Stour Valley and it is
impossible to see it as an unbiased work because the artist's feelings are so evident. The
Romantic obsession with nature as representing truth and purity is portrayed at its best in
this painting. In many ways it could be compared to a Garden of Eden, when put in the
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