| Except for some staffage across the valley floor, the remainder of the vista corresponds to the etching with excruciating fidelity, with one notable exception. |
| Here, museum officials watch expectantly as a cow examines a recently acquired landscape painting with bovine staffage. |
| Instead, he resorted to artistic licence as regards scale, spatial relationships and the introduction of staffage. |
| Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges. |
