Hengar near Camelford, Cornwall [graphic]

Description

Title: Hengar near Camelford, Cornwall [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1809 and 1822?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Landscape, rural; small cottage with figures at lower left; broken fence in front center near brook; water, stream in center with man on horseback herding cattle across it; large trees in back left and at front right on shore."--Collections database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, accession no.: SC 2009:16.
Description: Title etched below image.
Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812 (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-46), or from "Rowlandson's sketches from nature," dated 1809 and 1822 (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 169, 178, and 373).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Formerly mounted on leaf 27 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.1 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Genre prints England 1809
Etchings England 1809
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Cornwall (England : County)
Subjects: Cornwall (England : County) > Pictorial works
England > 1809
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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