Two Girls on a Barge ... With forty-four illustrations by F. H. Townsend
A light illustrated novel of a canal holiday, written by V. Cecil Cotes with forty-four drawings by F. H. Townsend, published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1891 for general readers. The captioned pen-and-ink plates show barge decks, cabin interiors, tea on deck, towpath horses and crowded figure groups, drawn in loose hatching useful for line-work backgrounds and period costume.












































