"Rural scene with two couples dancing on the left while a man pipes and plays a drum under a tree on the right, and another couple watch at a table in front of him, smoking and drinking; village in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shepherds holy day
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The month of May is now begun, and the sweet flowers are all in bloom; the nymphs and swains like lambs shall play, to welcome the shepherds holyday.
Publisher:
Published Oct. 24th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dancers, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Holidays, Shepherds, and Pipes (Smoking)
Volume 2, page 13. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: From a drawing with a pen by Is. Ostade - in possion. of J.T.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Topic):
Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), and Dogs
In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:
Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.