In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:
Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Title assigned by the cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, imprint and placement directions., Place, publisher and date of publication from illustrations in the 1791 and 1792 editions of The History of Tom Jones. This illustration is not present in the Beinecke Library copies of either edition., Illustration to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones ... , Book IX, Chapter 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1791 by J. Sibbald, Edinr
Title from later state in the Austrian National Library online catalogue., Early (proof?) state lacking title and dedication., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 15, 1792, by Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall, Chez S. Tessavi, and Chez J. Lanna, Rue de la Madeleine
