This is a beautiful giclee reproduction on 310gsm thick 100 cotton rag paper of a 1939 watercolour by eric ravillious rain falls from a luminous sky onto contours of land sculpted by time and coloured with a pallet of brown grey green and white this is one of a series of chalk figures painted by ravilious before and during the world war ii the white horse of uffington in the berkshire downs dates back to the bronze age circa 1000 bc it is by far the oldest of the white horse figure