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Thomas Creswick The Village Smithy Large Gilt Framed Landscape Print - Very Good Condition - A large-scale decorative landscape print after Thomas Creswick titled The Village Smithy. The work depicts a quintessential English pastoral scene featuring a rustic forge nestled beside a prominent sprawling tree. In the midground, a stone bridge crosses a tranquil river leading towards a distant village with a prominent church spire under a soft overcast sky. The piece is a mid-to-late 20th-century lithographic or photomechanical reproduction on paper. It is housed in a substantial modern ornate gilt-effect frame with a beaded inner sight edge and finished with a contemporary composite backing board and hanging wire.