Girl with a Jug of Ale and Pipes
Here we see a young girl returning from a public house carefully carrying a gallon jug of beer and three clay pipes up a steep flight of steps. The background is possibly Liverpool but more likely Kirkdale, where Campbell lived, with a view on the left towards the hilltop parish church of Everton and on the right to the sun sinking over the Mersey and the Welsh coastline.
Campbell regularly composed his pictures using a front-facing figure holding an object.
Eugene de Blaas
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