Famine [graphic].

Description

Title: Famine [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1763]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An emaciated man in rags and tartan shawl, without kilt, walks out of a cave on the right. He is barefoot and has a rag tied around his head. The landscape is that of the wild Scottish mountains, with misty moors. A small shack is visible on a hill in the background. Two emaciated sheep are near the cave
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date inferred from that of Charles Churchill's poem, The prophecy of famine : a Scots pastoral. London, 1763.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.7 x 17.8 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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