Blouzelind [graphic]

Description

Title: Blouzelind [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Abstract: A young woman is sitting at a spinning wheel, her staff and hat on the ground in front of her and a dog asleep beside her. She is putting on a bunch of flowers. In the distance is a man on horseback, a tower, and a hill
Description: Title from caption below image.
Text below title: The peerless maid that did all maids excel. Gay.
Illustration for John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Quotation from The shepherd's week, by John Gay, 1685-1732.
Later printing. Date of printing based on watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Provenance: Frank Hammond; August 1958;
Extent: 1 print : circular image 31.1 x 31 cm, on plate 43.7 x 34 cm, on sheet 55 x 36 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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