Drawing by Graham Sutherland, Aberystwyth University
1922-1923 Sepia ink, watercolour, pencil on cream laid paper
233 x 293 mm. Purchase: The 21 Gallery 1924
The Black Rabbit is a public house. The building in the drawing is the coach house, now a private residence. See PR702, by Graham Sutherland, and PR732, by Joseph Webb, for other works which depict the same location.
Drawing made near the Black Rabbit public house, Arundel; foreground, chalk barges moored by the Black Rabbit quay or wharf on the river Arun; middleground, trees, haystacks, the coachhouse, a ladder, a track/rails leading to the quarry and sheets hanging from a washing line; background, the cliff of a chalk pit topped with trees. Drawn in ink with sepia, pencil, grey wash and process white.