The watchful farmer [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
[4 June 1804]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 19.6 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 23 x 28.5 cm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '351' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Two lines of caption below title: Farmer. You lazy rascal what do you do here, why don't you work? such a fellow as you does not deserve the sun to shine on him. Haymaker. Indeed Master I thought so, therefore I've lain myself down in the shade.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Watermark: 1799.

Abstract:

A prosperous farmer, who leans on his walking stick as he stands over his chubby, young worker who is caught resting under a tree; he scratches his head as he leans up on his elbow. His scythe is half-hidden in the left foreground. On the right in the distance, a woman and two other young men rake the hayfield. The farmer's dog sniffs the ground, right foreground.

Associated Names:

Laurie & Whittle [Publisher]

Topics:

Dogs
Farmers
Hay
Laziness
Raking (Sweeping)

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1804
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1804
Watermarks (Paper) -- 1799

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

804.06.04.01

Orbis Record:

8438263

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10522

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15813758

PID:

digcoll:2782824