Annotated landscape with oak trees
A countryside sketch of trees and fields; the elements in the foreground are more summarily sketches, with thick outlines, while the background has trees with very fine detail and shading. RB has used the grain of the paper and very subtle charcoal and graphite smudging to suggest foliage in very intricate detail.
Each element of the landscape is annotated with numbers going from 1. to 19. It seems as though these annotations were added later.
There is a small, childish-looking sun in the top left corner. It is unclear whether or not this little sun is a indication of where the light is coming from or a light-hearted touch to the drawing.
“19. Their hillsides are stranger here and have small soft bright yellowish lights upon them.”

“12. Light mists of pyramidal forms (...) dark stack put in from memory.”
“11. Oak. Light warm yellowish brown, flat and crisp leaves very small and separate on lower branches particularly almost like (...? ?) stem something of a dark violet the whole tree thinner of foliage than other draws?”
“12. Oak. Bring yellowish greens and marks solid – stems browner and rather greener than N.1 and dark.”
“14. Light green tree, yellowish in the light and dark green with shade, minute sparks of light in the shade. Distant tree less solid than drawn tree, if slightly less intense in the shade than the darkest shades of N°2. Gloomy near the growth. Shade of 17. Darker than its shadow and not so gray.”
“18. This shadow a trifle less grey than that of 14.”
“9. Small patch of bright-green”
“10. Look like lopping off the trees”
“6. Green near the stem – considerably darker than 5. Shadows on stump are all darker than shadows on the (?)”
“5. This is lost amongst foliage of nearby trees and the shadows immediately below 8 is more broken than here drawn and softer.”
Dated May 25th, 1891.
Bound with PAG0642, PAG0644-PAG0676.