"RF" FitzRoy [bottom right corner]

Drawing. From the left to centre of the midground, there are half a dozen pale beech- or elder-like and silver-birch-like tree trunks, some leaning; there are other trees less distinctly indicated from the centre right to the right of the picture. The background consists of similar, darker, denser and not individually distinct trees. Some trees are shown in winter defoliation or with only scraps of foliage. The midground trunks rise above a dense undergrowth of low brambles or other low bushes. In the foreground, the fallen lower trunk of a large beech-like tree lies diagonally from the left-hand edge of the picture into the centre right, where the end shows a jagged breakage. Beneath it in the centre there is probably a pond. The centre right to the right of the foreground is filled with more dense undergrowth. At the right-hand edge of the picture, four bamboo-like stems are indicated, apparently broken off. The vertical annotation in the centre reads: "Note -- Equilea[?], of a light green approaching to yellow. and in many places touches of light chrome will come in very well.* There is altogether much variety of colour -- *particularly upon the stems of the trees --". There is much attention paid to the details of leaf arrangement and shape in the centre near-midground.