"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.