A girl of the Forest of Snowden [graphic]

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Title: A girl of the Forest of Snowden [graphic]
Creator: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watts, Simon, active 1767-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 August 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 14th, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Ct., Strand
Abstract: A young woman sits in a landscape, full-length, three-quarter to left but with head turned back towards the viewer, wearing a hat and holding a distaff under her left arm, a basket sits at her feet; behind her are several goats
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 42 in volume 2 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 : oval image 20.3 x 16 cm, on sheet 24.0 x 18 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 42. 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 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving and etching in bistre ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Wales.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Clothing & dress
Baskets
Goats
Subjects: Peasants > Wales
Clothing & dress > Wales
Baskets
Goats
England > London > 1785
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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