[Pastoral scene with couple] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Pastoral scene with couple] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Rest from labour on sunny days
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1784]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days.
Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly mounted on leaf 86 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 22.2 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Etchings England London 1784
Aquatints England London 1784
Material: etching and aquatint with stipple ; and laid paper brown ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Country life
Flutes
Dogs
Subjects: Country life
Flutes
Dogs
England > London > 1784
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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