This is an enlarged and redrawn version of the middle third of the painting, from E.W. Tristram's reconstruction which is on display on the facing wall. Eustace is standing in the river as his sons are carried away by a wolf and a lion. Hoban writes in his afterword ([EE]): "Eustace is all alone in the middle of the river, hoping for better times. Seeing him for the first time that day in 1974 I had a strong fellow-feeling." [EB]
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