May Day, or, Kate of Aberdeen [graphic]

Description

Title: May Day, or, Kate of Aberdeen [graphic]
Alternative Title: Kate of Aberdeen
Scene in the Scottish Highlands
Creator: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 March 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs March 4, 1782, by T. Macklin, No. 30 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A girl standing in the middle of a circle of spectators in a village, wearing a veil and with her arms outstretched as if partaking in a game, the group including a figure in kilt in the left foreground and a shepherd behind, a church(?) tower visible above trees behind and landscape beyond at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
"It is assumed that the inscribed engraver's name is a mistake, and should read 'P.W. Tomkins'"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed to a circular shape with loss of all text apart from the statements of responsibility. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1870,1008.36.
Eight lines of verse below title, beginning: "Now Blithsom oer the dewy mead ..."
Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : circular image 31 cm, on circular sheet 32 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English