Watermill in the Forest - Pencil Drawing Heightened with White - 19th C.

Old timber watermill with its great wheel fed by a wooden flume on trestles, beside a fir forest; in the foreground, logs stacked on the slope and, on the right, a wooden shed. Original pencil drawing heightened with white on grey paper, highly worked in the textures of wood and foliage, laid down on a white sheet. The type of building and the conifer landscape suggest Central Europe.

Medium: Original graphite pencil drawing heightened with white gouache on grey paper, laid down on paper.
Date: Mid-19th century.
Dimensions: Drawing 5.7 x 9.1 in (14.4 x 23 cm); backing paper 8.3 x 10.4 in (21 x 26.5 cm).
Condition: Good. The drawing is clean; the backing sheet has creases and some foxing in the margins.