Oil Painting

This oil sketch is one of the few surviving objects displayed at the Tolhouse before WW2. The art work was created by Tobias Lewis, the image shows a sailing smack entering the River Yare at Gorleston; the north pier is in the foreground and Gorleston pier, the pilots’ lookout and the Cliff Hotel shows in the background.
On the reverse side is a label for the Tolhouse Museum Art Exhibition, the front cover from the exhibition catalogue from 1910 and part of a page from the catalogues listing of number 16; A Breezy day; sketch unsigned and unframed.