Rural life [graphic].

Published/Created:

London
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
24. February, 1783

Physical Description:

1 print : mezzotint, hand-colored ; plate mark 354 x 253 mm., on sheet 38 x 28 cm.

Notes:

Title from item.

Abstract:

A fashionably dressed young woman holding a basket on her left arm watches pensively a hen, a rooster, and four chickens feeding at her feet in front of a small building with clapboard walls and an overhang above a Dutch door, probably a chicken coop. To her left, in the background, is a vast lawn bordered by flowers near the coop and by large trees, with a cottage behind, at the other end. The verse printed on both side of the title below the design begins, "To Operas, Masquerades, and Plays, / This Cottage Maid's a Stranger;"

Associated Names:

Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) [Publisher]

Topics:

Baskets
Chickens
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Farm life
Poultry houses

Language:

English

Genre:

Genre prints -- England -- 1783
Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1783

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

783.02.24.03+

Orbis Record:

6787155

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05138

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724709

PID:

digcoll:553707