Winter [graphic]

Description

Title: Winter [graphic]
Contributor: Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760, artist.
Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament October 1st 1762.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
Abstract: An old man in a fur hat and a fur-trimmed coat sits in front of a fireplace. In the foreground, his daughter kneels in front of fire using bellows to keep it going. In the background, his young son offers his father a bowl of steeming broth
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image: In life's last scene the hoary man of years, emblem of Winter, wrapt in furr appears ...
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.5 x 25.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Mezzotints England London 1762
Genre prints
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Children
Domestic life
Families
Fathers
Older people
Subjects: Children
Domestic life
Families
Fathers
Older people
England > London > 1762

Access: Public
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