Hengar near Camelford, Cornwall [graphic]

Description

Title: Hengar near Camelford, Cornwall [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1812]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Landscape, rural; small cottage with figures at lower left; broken fence in front center near brook; water, stream in center with man on horseback herding cattle across it; large trees in back left and at front right on shore."--Collections database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, accession no.: SC 2009:16.
Description: Title etched below image.
Identified in the Metopolitan Museum of Art online catalog (Object Number: 59.533.1685) as a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812, despite not being listed in Grego as such (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-246).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Formerly mounted on leaf 27 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.1 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Genre prints
Etchings England 1812
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Topic): Country life
Dwellings
Streams
Cattle
Subjects: Cornwall (England : County) > Pictorial works
Country life
Dwellings
Streams
Cattle
England > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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