'The Tender Grace of a Day that is Dead', late 19th century, (c1930). A woman looks wistfully out of the window as her son whittles a piece of wood, possibly for the toy boat in the window-seat. On her lap is fabric she has been mending, with thread and a sewing box on the table next to her. Painting, also known as 'The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me', in the Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester. From "Modern Masterpieces of British Art". [The Amalgamated Press Ltd., London, c1930]

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