Figure 3  Trenthan Woods Autumn, by John Thorley, 1904. Watercolor on paper. 14" x 20". “And my father dropped the pottery now and he’s painting—painting landscape. . . . [He] would go sketching, mostly in Dovedale, in Derbyshire, all the ancient places around Staffordshire. It is beautiful country there, most beautiful in the world. There’s nothing to touch it anywhere—I still think that. So I would go to carry his traps, which he called them, which was a sketching umbrella to keep the sun off of him when he painted his watercolors, his paint boxes, and so forth, and maybe some lunch in a bag.”