"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 15.9 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Volume 1, page 32. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three young women dancing holding their hands, within oval; young boy seated on carved stone playing flute on left, landscape in the background, after Henry Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist and printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.951., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 32 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Statements of responsibility added in ink below image: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 10th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
