"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
"A maid in simple dress sitting in profile to right on a rock in a hilly landscape, holding the handle of a bucket on the ground beside her, a figure on horseback on a path about to crest the hill in the distance at right; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Initial letters form a monogram in both artist's name and printmaker's name in signatures., "First state with scratched letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.121., For a later state, published 20 May 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by E. Hedges, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3004., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Cicely., and Mounted on page 31 of: Bunbury album.