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Watercolour showing a boy playing the pipe with two girls listening, by a stream

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Watercolour showing a boy playing the pipe with two girls listening, by a stream

[1920–1]

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Created by: Ithell Colquhoun 1906–1988
Title: Watercolour showing a boy playing the pipe with two girls listening, by a stream
Date: [1920–1]
Medium: Watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions: 255 × 180 mm (watercolour), 300 × 240 mm (mount)
Description: The picture is inscribed 'Tom he was a piper's son/He learnt to play when he was young/But all the tunes that he could play/Was over the hills and far away!'
Format: Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Bequeathed by Ithell Colquhoun to the Tate Archive
Reference: TGA 929/4/1/3

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Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) TGA 929 (215)
- Artworks TGA 929/4 (146)
- - Juvenilia TGA 929/4/1 (14)
  - - Watercolour showing a boy playing the pipe with two girls listening, by a stream TGA 929/4/1/3