Signed 'John Sowerby' (lower right).
Pencil and watercolor heightened with touches of white.
9½" x 13" (24.1 x 33cm)
Sowerby lived in Gateshead, Colchester and Abingdon, and exhibited from 1876-1914 and at the Royal Academy from 1879.
Depictions of cottage gardens were amongst his favorite subjects.