Lyon (fl.c.1755-1780), David – PAIR. A Summer Peregrination: The Embarkation and Resuscitation.

These characterful gouaches show a group of friends on a Summer walk. In the first they set off, led and encouraged by the man in red. The second shows them resting, exhausted from the heat. Their guide stands refreshing himself with the contents of a glass bottle that the man in blue seems anxious not to miss out on! The artist must be the David Lyon who made sporting pictures in the manner of James Seymour (1702-1752) and exhibited at the Free Society in 1774.