A full-length view of a pretty young woman in rustic dress with a straw bonnet, braiding corn with a sheaf in her apron, the end of which is tucked into her waistband. She stands in the center of the image under a grove of trees, with a river in the background on the left and a thatched cottage in the background on the right. In front of the door of the cottage, a man in a farmer's smock relaxes in a chair and smoking a pipe and a mud on a small table at his elbow
Description:
Title etched below image., Illustration to ballad The Cottagers Daughter. Text of the ballad is printed below the image, in three columns., Text begins: Ah tell me ye swains have you seen my Pastora, O say have you met the sweet Numph in your way ..., Numbered '311' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Corn, Daughters, Dwellings, Farmers, Fathers, Handicraft, and Young adults
