A widow with her gouty foot elevated, sits on a stool in front of her cottage, as her daughter wipes away a tear in the doorway. A tax collector with a book under his arm examines the widow's possessions, which are strewn about the ground in front of the house. Included are a bellows, chair, candlesticks, and cauldron. The cow's head is visible on the left. In the foreground a young squire in riding dress is in the act of offering the old woman a purse, as he eyes her pretty daughter
Alternative Title:
Widow Costard's cow and goods distrained for taxes
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Widows, Cows, Farmhouses, Tax payers, Country life, and Clothing & dress
"Half-length young woman, looking three-quarter to right, wearing a hat; her hands concealed in a large muff in front of her chest; after F. Wheatley."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Caption below title: Bless my heart how cold it is. Oh mon dieu, qu'il fait froid., One in a series of the four seasons., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cold, Hats, Clothing & dress, Women, and Young adults
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
Bunbury 786.03.03.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from lettered state., Proof before letters. For a later state published 3 March 1786, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.105., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
James Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clothing & dress, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses