In the Park

Robert Medley 1905 - 1994

Summary

A vibrant parkland scene with children playing and doing various acrobatic tricks. A group of three people wearing pointed hats are picnicking to the left. Behind them is a tent with a figure being held into a handstand on the right, and another figure doing a cartwheel behind to the left. There is a tree trunk in the centre of the composition with a boy hanging upside down climbing a branch growing to the right, In the right foreground is a boy jumping through a hoop held by another boy with his back to the viewer. Behind them is a bush and a man carrying a child on his back. In the right background at the top of a slope a three figures with kites and a mother pushing a pram with her two children. The lithograph is done in bright colours.