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A Collection of Works on Paper by Victor Noble Rainbird 42x30cm frame 33x21cm picture - This collection of works by Victor Noble Rainbird (British, 1888–1936) consists of one framed landscape and four unframed printed sketches. The central work is a landscape executed in watercolor, pen, and ink on toned wove paper. It depicts a river scene with slender trees in an impressionistic style using a palette of soft blues, greens, and ochre. The work is signed in the lower left corner in blue-grey paint VICTOR·NOBLE·RAINBIRD! and titled in the lower right L’AUTUMNE: SOMME. It is presented in a beaded gilt-wood frame with a wide cream mount. Accompanying the watercolor are four gestural pen and ink printed sketches on cream paper. Each sketch is signed and titled in the artist's hand: the first is titled CULLERCOATS·BAY and signed VICTOR NOBLE·RAINBIRD; the second is titled ·TYNE·HARBOUR· and signed VICTOR·NOBLE·RAINBIRD; the third depicts a harbour scene with a lighthouse and is signed VICTOR NOBLE RAINBIRD; the fourth is titled ·TYNEMOUTH·ABBEY· and is signed and dated VICTOR NOBLE·RAINBIRD/1934. These ink drawings employ a calligraphic line with dense cross-hatching to define shadows and structures.