"Three scenes, one above the other: top: on the shore, a shrimping girl, barefoot and very décolleté, with net and basket, showing shrimps on a plate to a stout man who examines them through an eyeglass, three other girls shrimping in the water at left, a Scottish officer and a young woman with a parasol walking off arm in arm to right, cliffs beyond; middle: a smock race, two women racing to right in the mid-distance, an excited crowd running behind them including a couple in a carriage, the men waving their hats, spectators standing and sitting on the grass in the foreground; below: digging in a field, at foreground right, two men digging for vegetables in the ground, another at left pushing a wheelbarrow with a basket full of vegetables, four shapely young women carrying other baskets on their heads, farm buildings beyond at right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Men digging and hauling vegetables in a field while young women carry baskets on their heads and Smock race with spectators
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.33., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Scene in a stable; at right four horses, three standing with their heads at the hay cribs to right, separated by Doric columns, the fourth sitting in the foreground, a rope running from its bridle to an iron ring on a manger at right; at left, a rustic pouring from a drink into a goblet, surrounded by a jolly party: a man leaning on a pitchfork at centre, a young woman holding a child, a couple seated on a hayrick, and two dogs, nose to nose; open door and window behind to centre and left, tackle on the wall to right of the door."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "36" in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A visit to a country house; at right the pillared portico, a woman entering at the door, a young man talking with a young woman on the steps, another woman walking up, potted plants to the side of the steps; at left a four-wheeled carriage pulled up at the door, a young woman with parasol seated next to the driver, who holds the reins of a pair of horses, three other young women in the carriage; parkland beyond."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.53., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "28" in upper right corner., and Title devised by curator and cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Scene outside a mill factory at left, two men loading sacks onto a cart from an upper storey, a man and two women talking below by the fence around the millstream, another woman with a donkey on the other side of the stream; at right, a man with a basket and a woman with a pail talking; sailing boat and water beyond at centre, mill on grassland to right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of image on right and left sides and partial loss of plate number. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.48., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "23" in upper right corner., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Scene on the seashore, with a pretty oyster girl with a basket over her arm standing at right, another young woman examining the oysters, a young man with his hand on the oyster girl's shoulder and another man leering from behind; a young girl and her suitor sitting on the ground at right, an old, hunched couple sitting looking on at left, cannons and anchor on the ground in front; shipping on the sea behind."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides with loss of plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.35., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Wooded river landscape, a rowing boat at foreground right next to a bank, a young woman seated on one bench with a basket beside her, a young man standing by the other and helping another woman step into the boat, a dog barking at them; river winding at left, small temple folly beyond to right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "35" in upper right corner., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.