The Don Englebreston Collection

Down-Type Sheep Grazing on Managed Parkland, Framed by Overhanging Foliage

Down-Type Sheep Grazing on Managed Parkland, Framed by Overhanging Foliage

Black-faced Down-type sheep — most likely Suffolks — graze across mown parkland, framed by the dark overhanging leaves of a beech. Picnic tables, white posts, and staked young saplings along the tree line mark this as managed public or estate ground rather than working farmland, an arrangement long common in Britain and Northwestern Europe where grazing livestock keep amenity grass in check. Soft hazy light and the cool cast of aging slide film give the scene its still, blue quiet. It is a leisure photograph, taken on the same rolls of film that carried a serviceman's other memories. Project: 219970