1869 Watercolour on paper, mounted on white wove paper
224 x 326 mm. Bequest: George Powell 1882
Powell rented a cottage at Etretat in the summer of 1868 and invited Swinburne to stay with him. The cottage was named Chaumiere Dolmancé after a character in the writings of the Marquis de Sade
Landscape at Etretat, Normandy; foreground, two cows on grass and, on the right, a track; middleground, bushes, a fence and, on the right, the gable end of a barn and two figures walking; background, houses, hills and the romanesque Church of Notre Dame; sky, some small cumulus. Drawn in outline in pencil with gentle washes of watercolour
