Aestas [art original] / Mary Walpole fecitWalpole, Mary, artist[approximately 1746]engA busy scene in a farm yard. In the left foreground a woman (Aestas?) sits on a rock, while at her feet a woman spoons soup from a large bowl. She leans toward the boy at her side who holds a full soup bowl in his hands. To her left a young man approaches with two fowl hanging from the pole over his shoulder. Sheep mull about in the center foreground while on the right an old man sheers a sheep held by another young boy. In the background a man cuts rushes (?) which are loaded into a cart (with ox). In the left background stands a hut in front of which a group of men work at thatching a roofTitle written in brown ink above image, some letters very faint: Æstas.Signed in the lower right corner: Mary Walpole fecit.Upper left corner scortched with some loss at the margin.