The country maid [graphic]

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Title: The country maid [graphic]
Creator: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 March 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 20, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Abstract: "A maid standing in a landscape with an empty basket in hand, looking out longingly, another behind her bends down to pick up a pail, in the distance across fields a steeple at left and cottage at right; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2971.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Two lines of verse etched below title: No care, but love, can discompose her breast. Love, of all cares, the sweetest, and the best.
Mounted on page 4 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.5 x 24 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 4. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1782
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Women domestics
Pails
Baskets
Subjects: Women domestics
Pails
Baskets
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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