Spring [graphic]

Description

Title: Spring [graphic]
Contributor: Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs 1779.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: A young man sits on a bench under a tree as he holds the hand of a pretty young maid. A piece of paper in her pocket has the words "Let us Polly do so to". At her side (right) a little boy plays gentle with a nest filled with eggs. A magpie sits on the edge of a basket filled with eggs. The young man points left to a pair of love birds on the wall behind, a dove cote in the yard of the house beyond. From behind the tree an old woman looks at the scene with anger, her first clenched. The cat on the fence beside her looks ready to pounce
Description: Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '392'.
Publication date erased from this impression.
Provenance: A. Thomas; August 1964;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 48 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1779
Mezzotints England London 1779
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Anger
Boys
Cats
Couples
Dovecotes
Magpies
Nests
Subjects: Anger
Boys
Cats
Couples
Dovecotes
Magpies
Nests
England > 1779
England > London > 1779

Access: Public
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