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- 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 x 180 mm (watercolour), 300 x 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
Archive context
- Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) TGA 929 (215)
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