"Landscape, rural; small cottage with figures at lower left; broken fence in front center near brook; water, stream in center with man on horseback herding cattle across it; large trees in back left and at front right on shore."--Collections database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, accession no.: SC 2009:16.
Description:
Title etched below image., Identified in the Metopolitan Museum of Art online catalog (Object Number: 59.533.1685) as a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812, despite not being listed in Grego as such (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-246)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 27 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
[approximately 1812] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Call Number:
Paulson 812.00.00.131
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Landscape, rural; small cottage with figures at lower left; broken fence in front center near brook; water, stream in center with man on horseback herding cattle across it; large trees in back left and at front right on shore."--Collections database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, accession no.: SC 2009:16.
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with border added and Rowlandson's signature partially worn from plate., Identified in the Metopolitan Museum of Art online catalog (Object Number: 59.533.1685) as a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812, despite not being listed in Grego as such (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-246)., and Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates around 1980. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles.
"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
Alternative Title:
Kate of Aberdeen and Scene in the Scottish Highlands
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 ...", and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 4, 1782, by T. Macklin, No. 30 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Villages, Country life, Celebrations, and Shepherds
"A woman supporting a toddler, talking to a man who lies on the ground, a dog beside them and an old woman watching from her seat just inside the door of a thatched cottage to right, with a gnarled tree overshadowing the scene and landscape continuing to left; after Morland."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by J. Young, No. 58, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1787]
Call Number:
Drawer 787.09.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two families and a laden ass travelling on a path, the parents looking to each other with worried faces and weeping as the children play; a woodcutter on the far left by a thatched cottage, hills and landscape to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Dedication from James Kirby to James Caulfield, the Earl and Viscount Charlemont, etched below title., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint, dedication, and coat of arms below title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration number: 1890,0415.234., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published the 1 Sept. 1787 by I. Kirby, No. 7 Gresse Street, Rathbone Place
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Donkeys, Crying, Children, and Dwellings
A young woman picking apples is watched by a youth who hides behind the tree and bushes on the right, his right hand over his heart; more trees in the background and the edge of a thatched cottage to left and a stream in the distance, right
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Below title is engraved a song of six verses in three columns that begins: On Richmond Hill there lives a lass, More bright than May-day morn ...
Publisher:
Published July 20th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
"Rural scene with two couples dancing on the left while a man pipes and plays a drum under a tree on the right, and another couple watch at a table in front of him, smoking and drinking; village in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shepherds holy day
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The month of May is now begun, and the sweet flowers are all in bloom; the nymphs and swains like lambs shall play, to welcome the shepherds holyday.
Publisher:
Published Oct. 24th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dancers, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Holidays, Shepherds, and Pipes (Smoking)
A widow with her gouty foot elevated, sits on a stool in front of her cottage, as her daughter wipes away a tear in the doorway. A tax collector with a book under his arm examines the widow's possessions, which are strewn about the ground in front of the house. Included are a bellows, chair, candlesticks, and cauldron. The cow's head is visible on the left. In the foreground a young squire in riding dress is in the act of offering the old woman a purse, as he eyes her pretty daughter
Alternative Title:
Widow Costard's cow and goods distrained for taxes
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Widows, Cows, Farmhouses, Tax payers, Country life, and Clothing & dress